A interseccionalidade como categoria de análise em Olhos D'água, de Conceição Evaristo: raça, gênero e classe na construção das personagens femininas negras.

Abstract

This research analyzes the work Olhos D'água (2016), by Conceição Evaristo, from the perspective of intersectionality as a category of analysis, aiming to understand how the social markers of race, gender, and class operate in the construction of the black female characters in the collection. Based on authors such as Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins, Carla Akotirene, and Lélia Gonzalez, the investigation adopts a qualitative and bibliographical approach, focusing on the short stories "Olhos d'água" and "Maria". The analysis demonstrates that the characters are constituted from experiences crossed by multiple oppressions that act simultaneously and interdependently, highlighting structural violence, social exclusion, and strategies of daily resistance. It is concluded that Evaristo's writing, through escrevivência, configures itself as a space for denunciation and identity affirmation, contributing to the visibility of black women's experiences in contemporary Brazilian literature and to the construction of a critical and anti-racist.