Sentidos e memórias em luta : mulheres negras brasileiras no III Encontro Feminista Latinoamericano e Caribenho (1985)

This work deals with the disputes for the meanings of “black woman (or women)” in the social and historical memory nets in which the so-called "black women movement” in Brazil is enrolled. Considering different imaginary interlocution relations that intercross particular memories, our analysis focuses in this movements’ emergency. Dispersed formulations produced from different enunciative places and subject positions in the speech, can tell about which place the black women occupied in struggles and riots in Brazilian history (as well as the ancestor in Africa), at work, in cultural and artistic manifestations, in African origin religions, in the families, refuting stereotyped contemptuous images of the black women related to servitude, submission, to hyper sexualization, invisibility and those who are seen as if they were objects in the social and historical processes. From one discourse analysis strand, in dialogue with Lélia González's work, Brazilian militant and intellectual from the black movement, we discuss the enunciative mechanisms in the “black women” construction as a paradoxical object and subject in the “black women movement” discourse in relation with previous meanings and in the futurity projection of meanings, reflecting about its meanings in the contradiction as effect of the regularities