Do sangue que escrevivemos: epistemologias negro-femininas em “Só as mulheres sangram” de Lia Vieira

Abstract

From the reading and analysis of the book of short stories Only women Sangram, by Lia Vieira (2011), using as a key to reading, concept and methodological path, writing, a concept by author Conceição Evaristo (2008), this work proposes the concept I write with ẹ̀ jẹ̀ , ancestral blood that runs through the veins, the bodies, the lives of black women in a very specific way. The study is developed from the analysis of self-representation in black-female literature in the work. I propose here, in a black ancestral understanding that we women are many, and our experiences are many, however, beyond our crossings and subjectivities, the intersectional understanding that our common experiences also occur socially brings us the perspective of this collective agency, of that shared blood that is also black as the color of our skin, in our very specific ways of bleeding. Lia Vieira brings a commitment to racial issues and shows this in her works by proposing new ways of existing, rethinking existence and proposing new perspectives. Based on this understanding, we will think of writing with 'jẹ̀ as an epistemological category of Ancestrality, which disallows the signs that were imposed on us as epistemic violence, as Nilma Lino Gomes (2010) brings us. Ancestry that is beyond what is traditionally understood as time, because it does not follow a straight line, crosses the counts, meets and disperses at its crossroads, it is time through time, here and yesterday crossed, spinning in a spiral, as Leda Maria Martins (2002) brings us. Time, blood, life written in black and female are ancestral, as must be our references, our epistemologies; and black-female literature is an extremely important tool to collaborate in the dissemination of this awareness, of this life that is, as Conceição Evaristo teaches us, committed to writing.