Thoughts of Black Woman in Diaspora: Written Body Poetry and History

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the writing of the black female body in the literary production of Afro-Brazilian writers. To this end, we selected the poems of Miriam Alves, one of many contemporary female voices that have been engaged in developing new models and other images into the body of a black woman, whose designs, meanings are linked to the history and experience of (as) African descent in the African diaspora. In his verses, other forms are entered to say that (s) body (s) that are distant from the stereotypical representations, ethnocentric and phallocentric constructed, historically, a cultural tradition in Brazil.