{"title":"O silêncio como resistência em Ponciá Vicêncio de Conceição Evaristo","authors":"Luciana Namorato","doi":"10.3368/lbr.57.2.4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the use of silence as a symbolic, thematic, and stylistic tool employed by Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo in Ponciá Vicêncio (2003), within the larger context of the literature written by black women. Focusing on Ponciá, a sculptor who is evasive and emotionally absent, the novel presents narrative gaps and ruptures that foreground silence. Building on theoretical works that examine the role of silence in subaltern discourse, this essay demonstrates how Evaristo transforms silence into an empowering tool that highlights the systematic erasure of black female subjectivity from Brazilian history and literature. In Ponciá Vicêncio, Evaristo makes use of silence to denounce the adverse living conditions of Afro-Brazilians, more specifically their daily, albeit often invisible, reality of exploitation, injustice, and resistance.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Luso-Brazilian Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.57.2.4","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This essay examines the use of silence as a symbolic, thematic, and stylistic tool employed by Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo in Ponciá Vicêncio (2003), within the larger context of the literature written by black women. Focusing on Ponciá, a sculptor who is evasive and emotionally absent, the novel presents narrative gaps and ruptures that foreground silence. Building on theoretical works that examine the role of silence in subaltern discourse, this essay demonstrates how Evaristo transforms silence into an empowering tool that highlights the systematic erasure of black female subjectivity from Brazilian history and literature. In Ponciá Vicêncio, Evaristo makes use of silence to denounce the adverse living conditions of Afro-Brazilians, more specifically their daily, albeit often invisible, reality of exploitation, injustice, and resistance.
期刊介绍:
Luso-Brazilian Review publishes interdisciplinary scholarship on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African cultures, with special emphasis on scholarly works in literature, history, and the social sciences. Each issue of the Luso-Brazilian Review includes articles and book reviews, which may be written in either English or Portuguese.