A escrita de si em A Cor Púrpura, de Alice Walker e Diário de Bitita, de Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

In late decades,there has occurred a kind of proliferation of the studies on introspective narratives upon great social and historic happenings - a broad field encompassing these narratives that internalize the writings of the self - memories, letters, diaries autobiographies, and auto fiction. Highlighting the importance of the confessional genre as a means to rescue the memory expressed in such works, we point out the trajectory of Celie e Bitita respectively from Alice Walker´s and Carolina de Jesus` novels, as a process of construction of the black woman identity in their historical and social contexts, The United States and Brazil. The present research has as theorethical support the contributions of Michel Foucault (2004), Georges Gusdorf (2012), Philippe Lejeune (2014), among others. During the survey, we could understand the trajectory and the rescue of the writing of memory up from their historical and cultural implications once we looked into the confessional lines written by the elected writers. We will point out the configurations round the writing of the self as practices of caring expressed by the instinct of narrating the self, this fragmented although dynamic tissue. Both Alice Walker as much as Carolina Maria de Jesus are conscious of their functionality as writers. Tis way, they construct narratives that reelaborate happenings, since their main interest is to recognize through memory the presence of otherness and of autonomy in these writings of the self. In writings like these. During this study we became convinced that the writing of this self will resist and will be eternized in paper, and in this way, letters and diaries will be written solely, separately, as practice of asceticism, but they undoubtedly will re-signify individual and collective memories.