In the weavings of Conceição Evaristo's escrevivência: the word-gesture as body writing in the work of Rosana Paulino and Sônia Gomes

Abstract

This article is an intertwining between literature and the visual arts, stitched with the concept of escrevivência, developed by brazilian writer and literary critic Conceição Evaristo, understood as an episteme that is inscribed in the body, through gesture. I present reflections about escrevivência as a methodology of gesturalized writing, through textile art, in the works of brazilian artists Rosana Paulino and Sônia Gomes. The escrevivência invites us to expand the contours of Brazilian literary production, presenting itself as a possible resource that encompasses the pluriversality of narratives and interpretative modes about the black experience. It is also a theoretical apparatus that can establish dialogues with black productions in other areas of knowledge and is configured as an operator for analyzing productions that relate to corporality.