Ancestral fertility in "Ponciá Vivêncio"

Abstract

The literature of Conceição Evaristo presents in its characters a rescue and a sort of re­writing of Brazilian historical records, mainly experienced by the black skinned people. Therefore, a literature work as such goes beyond the intentions and canonical places to be destined, because it is a fictional production that acts interposing the discourse of literary authoritarianism. Conceição Evaristo is an author who symbolizes this multiplicity of inherited experiences of the slavery period and post-colonialism in Brazil. Whence, the purpose of this study is to explore the reflections on the historical memory in the novel Ponciá Vicêncio, as well as the issues of ancestrally and how it is con­figured in the maternity of two feminine characters in the novel: the protagonist Ponciá Vicêncio and the wise Nêngua Kainda. Therefore, the considerations of Verena Alberti (2004) on memory and orality; and Reginaldo Prandi (2001) on the representation of mythology of deities in this narrative, it will be used as theoretical framework.

Keywords

• Memória
• Ancestralidade
• Maternidade