MULHERES NA LITERATURA LATINO-AMERICANA

O INVISÍVEL TAMBÉM TEM COR

Abstract

This study aims to highlight female invisibility in the field of Latin American literature, emphasizing the invisibility of black women. For this, the decolonial perspective will be used, with its consequences of decolonial feminism, as the processes of sexualization and racialization originated with the European invasions will be considered. Access to education is also a relevant aspect of invisibility. Among several Latin American writers mapped since the 1600s, we chose to highlight the first black novelist in Latin America and, therefore, in Brazil, whose novel Úrsula can be considered one of the founding works of Afro-Brazilian literature. This is Maria Firmina dos Reis. The study considered four of his works: Úrsula, A escrava, Gupeva and Cantos à beira mar, and it is possible to verify that her production, in addition to promoting the protagonism of enslaved black characters, brings other relevant aspects to literature and society, relationships patriarchal and racial. Therefore, it is possible to say that the invisible also has color, because even though historically white women have also suffered and are undergoing processes of invisibility, black women and other women of color face greater difficulties and end up being even more invisible in society and in literature.