Poetic Memories of Black Female Writers: Reinventions of (Re) Existences

Abstract

The literary writing of black female authors is often a practice of autonomy, since their literary production subverts practices of banishment of their own voices. Their structures, in this sense, become ways of asserting and interpreting themselves. With literary language, they write other enuncations of themselves, drawn by stories, personal and collective memories, and by identitarian and literary projects in which one wants away from marks of subalternities and erasures. They enact referential and poetic I(s), stripping away some memories of what one wants forgotten and inventing memories and poetics of what one wants to remember. Thus, in this text, descriptive-interpretative readings of their poetic memories are presented with the objective of collaborating with the formation of their readership.