RE)TELLING CAPIXABA STORIES:
Escrevivência as a bridge to the writing of black women
Escrevivência; Black Literature; Capixaba Literature; Capixaba History.
The present work aims to investigate Capixaba Literature with a focus on the black authorship, taking into consideration the cultural and artistic incentive laws of the municipalities of Serra, Cariacica and São Mateus, in the state of Espírito Santo. The research methodology is based on a bibliographic and documental survey and on “Escrevivência”, a concept conceived by Conceição Evaristo, for it is from the gathering of information, facts, and my memories that the writing process takes shape, creating possibilities to forge identity, to refute literary historiography, and to retell our black Brazilian stories, particularly for young people from Espírito Santo. To this end, we rely on the constructs of Conceição Evaristo, Luiz Silva (Cuti), Ana Rita Santiago, Kiusam de Oliveira, Ione Jovino, Ivana Esteves Passos de Oliveira, Reinaldo Santos Neves, and many other intellectuals. As it unveils the literary scenario of the state of Espírito Santo, this work will retell three Brazilian black stories, having as its final product the publication of a book with the stories of João Bananeira, the Revolta de Queimados, and Zacimba Gaba, which in the space-time of Espírito Santo occurred respectively in the cities of Cariacica, Serra, and São Mateus.