Memory as trace in Conceição Evaristo's poems

Abstract

The poetry of Conceição Evaristo is known for revealing what has long remained hidden: the female black voice, a voice that, paradoxically, always existed, but was echoed in deaf ears. Now the many lost screams of difference can be heard ant the ears are put to the test, for recognizing and glimpsing the absence brought by the signs - when we first believed they brought the presence - is no easy task. Thus, we understand and propose the analyze the poemas of the author: his poetry promotes the trace - the abscente, the other, which carries within itself a significant potential precisely while it is a shadow, because the black voices are on the scene, but still, are not under the light, however to be in the shade becomes potency. For this discussion, we will therefore evoke the Derrida concept of trace in a dialogue with the concept of memory, because we believe that it is through the memory of those voices that the traces are constructed in the poetry of Conceição Evaristo.