A escrava é quem manda aqui : a mulher negra no conto afro-brasileiro de Maria Firmina dos Reis e no conto afro-moçambicano de Paulina Chiziane.

Abstract

This research intends to promote a comparative analysis of the short stories Quem manda aqui?, by Paulina Chiziane (2019), published originally in 2013, and A escrava, by Maria Firmina dos Reis (2021), written in 1887, to ponder Black women’s figuration in the prosaic texts as a symbol of resistance to violence. The study draws on research from theoretical and historical perspectives of the entrenchment of African-Mozambican literature, based on the research of Sávio Roberto Fonseca de Freitas (2014, 2020), Luciana Brandão Leal e Roberta Maria Ferreira Alves (2023), Juvenal Bucuane (2023) and Francisco Noa (1999), and of Afro-Brazilian literature, based on the contributions of Ana Rita Santiago da Silva (2011), Marília Conforto (2001), Eduardo de Assis Duarte (2010). The Afro-Feminist theories in Mozambique and Afro-Latin American Feminism in Brazil are explored from the perspectives of Oyèrónké Oyewùmí (2020), Signe Arnfred (2011) e Lélia Gonzalez (2020). It is assumed that, through theoretical study and by adopting intertextuality as a methodology for comparative analysis, it is possible to establish dialogues on the representation of resistance attributed to Black women in Afro-identified literatures, here exemplified by the works of Paulina Chiziane and Maria Firmina dos Reis.