Living and dying, generating and killing: intertwining gender, class and race in “How many children did Natalina have?”, by Conceição Evaristo
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gender, class, race, black maternityAbstract
In the tale “Quantos filhos Natalina teve?”, present in the literary work Olhos d’água (2016), Conceição Evaristo intertwines gender, class, racial and ethnic issues as she addresses the themes on maternity and rape experienced by black women. The narrative expresses the breaking of the woman-motherhood-nature myth, and of the constitution of the nuclear family as a sine qua non condition for a woman's happiness – both notions constructed by gender. Recognize the intersectional occurrence of gender, class, racial and ethnic oppressions to reflect on black maternity allow us to deconstruct the logic of racial violence, witch is grounded in the meanings of colonization.
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