MÃETERNIDADE NAS OBRAS A COR DA TERNURA, DE GENI MARIANO GUIMARÃES, E PONCIÁ VICÊNCIO, DE CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO

Abstract

In this article, we work, through a comparative study, on the way in which motherhood is metaphorized in the works A cor da ternura (1989), by Geni Mariano Guimarães, and Ponciá Vicêncio (2003), by Conceição Evaristo. Therefore, we establish a discussion about how the main characters, Geni and Ponciá, are permeated by their relationship with their mothers, but also by patriarchy. The focus will be on the legacies of Ponciá and Geni, as well as the legacies they collected to support their beings, in their daily lives and in their intersubjective relationships with their mothers, who build a motherhood closely linked to their experience as black women. Therefore, the relationships in the novels led us to understand that the motherhood of black women crosses the common notion of time, thus, mãeternidade is woven through the care and ancestral teachings passed on to their daughters. The examination of narratives is supported by post-colonial, decolonial, black feminist studies and literary critics, such as Duarte (2009 and 2020), Kilomba (2019), Gonzalez (2020) Foucault (2013) Halbwachs (1990) and Deniz (2024).