Os fios da morte nos tecidos da memória: um estudo comparativo sobre Amada, de Toni Morrison e Becos da memória de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This dissertation is about the deathly threads inside the cloths of the memory and how this relation is linked to the novels of two black writers: Toni Morrison (2007) and Conceição Evaristo (2017). The first one, an African American, university professor and winner of the Nobel Prize, whose novel analyzed here is Amada; the second one, a black writer from Minas Gerais and who produces both in the literary and academic spheres, whose novel analyzed here is Becos da Memória. The methodological approach is a bibliographic qualitative research, prioritizing the use of black references; a look from within the black community about themes that pervade these intellectuals – both physically and subjectively. Thus, in the course of this dissertation, we will present the relation between death and memory, also linked with other icons and subthemes whose will be discussed as well. The dialogues carried out with these works deal especially with time and images that refer to the spiral time; spaces that are mixed as places of memory and signs of death; and the writing policy that is at the heart of the sewing of these women seamstresses. Then, we will talk about the bodies that fall in the narratives, but go beyond the object-book and affect the readers and the society in which racism is structuring.