THE DISCOURSE OF BLACK PROTAGONISTS IN AFRO-BRAZILIAN PROSE
Speech analysis. Black Female Authorship. Senses. Aesthetic Reflection.
This research aims to analyze the construction of autonomous and emancipatory discourses of black protagonists in Afro-Brazilian Literature, in which subject and meaning are re-signified, legitimizing discursive practices and occupying social spaces as a form of existence and resistance. It starts from the principle that the discourse in its material, historical form (language-exteriority relationship) and its functioning, establishes an understanding of the process of production of meanings. The question is to understand how meanings are produced and sustained, observing the historical-linguistic materiality of literary discursivities producing effects on language, transforming it. Under the perspective of the Discourse Analysis of materialist line and in dialogue with the Aesthetics of Georg Lukács, the analysis presents the enunciative places and subject-positions in the discourse. Thinking about the specific place of speech of the black woman and how the “meaning can/could be different” (ORLANDI, 2007), we will take as research corpus texts in prose by the writers Miriam Alves, Eliana Alves Cruz and Conceição Evaristo. Taking into account the interdiscourse, historicity and materiality as the functioning of any discourse, the authors expose in their literary productions meanings and other meanings affected by the insertion in a political movement of identity affirmation. Thus, the discursive materiality, under analysis, is understood as a monument that brings the verb as a cure for the subalternization and dehumanization of the subject crossed, as an inscription in new discourses.