Love Between Black Women Is A Revolutionary Act
Lesboaffective (Re)existences and Subversion to Heteronorm in the short story “Beijo na face”, by Conceição Evaristo
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https://doi.org/10.14393/LL63-v38-2022-13Keywords:
Beijo na face, Affectivity, Literature and Homosexuality, Black women, LGBT phobiaAbstract
Just like sexism and racism are experienced in different ways and at different levels of intensity by black women compared to white women and black men, so will LGBT+phobia have a different configuration when faced by black women. As Gloria Anzaldúa teaches us (2000, p. 229): “The lesbian of color is not only invisible, she doesn't exist”. In “Beijo na face”, a short story featured in the literary work Olhos d’água (2016), Conceição Evaristo provides us with the means to reflect on the ruptures that a black female body promotes in the white-centric and heteronormative social system, as it does not submit to the hegemonic discourse in neither the ethnic-racial sphere nor the affectivity and sexuality sphere. The semantic field of the short story is constantly crossed by the metaphorization of a genuine love, in its symbiosis with the pain of interdiction. A love that is, first of all, a gesture of insubordination.Downloads
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