Voices on the margins: The black woman's formative novel

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to Conceição Evaristo's novel of formation, whose narratives dramatize the lives of characters who are on the margins of social centers, bureaucratic estates, oligarchies, political patronage, neoliberal economic rationality, and the cultural matrices of colonial domination. In this sense, by proposing a critical reflection on the dominant values of the instances of consecration of the Western literary canon, that is, universities, schools, critics, and Brazilian literary historiography, this text aims to open up ways of proposing a democratic literary education.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/chaandieducasc-044