ENTRENCH LITERATURE OF ROOTED BLACK WOMAN

Abstract

Abstract: This text reflects on the literary encounter between Françoise Ega (1920 - 1976) and Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914/1919/1921-1977). Both black writers who found in literature a space to imagine, heal, transmute and weave possible paths in their diasporic processes. Whether the Martinican Ega writing in Marseille, or the minera Carolina located in São Paulo, in their respective spaces far from where they lived until adolescence, they formulated and nourished their root texts not only as a return to their origins, but also as a promotion and recomposition of new roots. Ega, expands and penetrates her words-lines to Brazil, recognizing in Carolina a mirror from which memories spring up in her missives, never read by the Brazilian author, but, nevertheless, she found in the current reception the realization that the “miseries of the poor persist” from all over the world (who) look like sisters”.

Keywords: Carolina Maria de Jesus; Francoise Ega; black literature; diaspora; letter;