Memory, alterity, and self-writings in Conceição Evaristo, Maria Auxiliadora, Carolina de Jesus, and Elza Soares: the art of “writexperience”

Abstract

This essay reflects on the concept of writexperience under the perspective of Literature and other Art forms, based on the works of Carolina Maria de Jesus, Elza Soares, and Maria Auxiliadora da Silva, in the arc of listening, experiencing, and writing. Conceição Evaristo inaugurates this trend, relating it to the field of research in the black and female expression, through the writing of her own experiences and listening to other people's stories, which results in an act of resistance and manifestation that is both aesthetic and critical-socioracial.

Keywords:
writexperience; literature and other art forms; experiences; black and feminine expression; socio-racial manifestation