“Livro do Avesso: o pensamento de Edite”, de Elisa Lucinda

a dialogue between social voices

Abstract

An Afro-Brazilian literature has as a fulcrum the desire to make voices reverberate that have been silenced over many years. In this context, this literature has been consolidating itself as a form of ideological expression and belonging to a subject who enunciates who activates his discursive memories to elucidate history and culture in an aesthetic way. In this context,we bring to the analysis the Afro-Brazilian work “Livro do Avesso -o pensamento de Edite”, by the author Elisa Lucinda. Thus, we present some relevant points to the theme of Afro-Brazilian literature in dialogue with the theoretical assumptions of Bakhtin and the Circle. To support the analyses, we use the studies of Bakhtin (2003), Brait (2018) and highlight the stream of consciousness of the narrator character, here understood as “Voice”. From this corpus, we ask: How does the flow of consciousness of the narrating character represent the voices that have been silenced by many generations, above all those of black women? For our analysis we will mobilize some of the many Bakhtinian concepts, mainly dialogical relations, bivocal discourse and the author/character relationship. Our (in)finished analyzes suggest that the work represents an ideological positioning in a responsively active response to the various ways of extinguishing black women, whether in the face of their social position, their wishes andyearnings, or in the face of the ills that Brazilian class society in the face of injuries, and that the character “Voice” is crucial to demarcate this silencing of voices in the narrative.