Giving new meaning to the corporeality of black women in Becos da memória, by Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This article investigates the rewriting of the corporeality of black women in Conceição Evaristo's novel Becos da Memoria (2006). It analyses how the body and its symbols are represented in the novel and how these constructions destabilize moral judgements and stereotypes that anchor the body of the black woman to an enslaved past by creating new territorialities where the subjectivity of the black woman is made visible and valued.