AS INEXORÁVEIS VIOLÊNCIAS SOBRE OS CORPOS NEGROS
UMA LEITURA DE ANA DAVENGA, DE CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO
Abstract
This article presents a critical reading of the short story Ana Davenga from the perspective of the representation of violence. In this short story, the character who gives the text its title is faced with a conflicting situation that appears inescapable, which materializes shortly after genuine moments of happiness experienced by her and her partner. This reality check makes violence in your life seem like an inexorable phenomenon. In this sense, it is understood that, for someone like Ana Davenga, a peripheral black Brazilian woman, it is not possible to dissociate herself from the aspect of violence in her identity construction. This text, therefore, presents a theoretical reflection on the formation of the identity of black subjects, marked by violence that, being institutionalized, starts to act officially as what Achille Mbembe (2008) would call necropolitics, heir to plantations and apartheid. Furthermore, the analysis is also directed to the specific condition of black women, since the violence suffered by this identity figure in particular reaches certain intersectional degrees not reached by black men (in addition to race, gender), denoting a greater complexity. Thus, this work undertakes its analysis from the theoretical perspectives of the issue of identity and intersectionality.