The poetics of the feminine negritude in "Ana Davenga": revelation of a necroescritura?

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of the story "Ana Davenga" (2016), by Olhos D'água, by the Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo. In this work, narrated in the third person, there is a feminization of the narrative approach, that is, the perspective of the omniscient voice, despite not belonging to the universe that counts, elicits a woman's gaze. Through the intersection of the categories race / class / gender, a reading is formed from which women would not be treated as a universal abstraction, but rather as a materialized and historical subject. In this sense, it is proposed to investigate how many social issues that affect the Afro-descendant population in Brazil (impoverishment, crime, exclusion, police violence etc.) are elaborated in the work from this poetics of the feminine. In the same way, it will be discussed about the ways in which the narrative of Conceição Evaristo leads to establish close relations between death and enjoyment and, by extension, to inquire about the structural devices put into practice by the State and by the economic system that make black people into disposable human lives. To this end, the approaches of Achille Mbembe, Agamben, Judith Butler, Lacan and Riviera Garza will be approached with the aim of bringing to light as the story proposes a reflection, from literature, of inhuman conditions, aggravated in the context of contemporary necropolis, that it is up to the blacks to live in Brazil.