(UN)VEILING BLACK HEROINES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BLACK FEMINISM

This work is the result of a Bachelor's Degree in Literature and aims to highlight the voices of black women who have been silenced for a long time, through the narratives present in the strings of the northeastern writer Jarid Arraes. Therefore, analyzes were made in four texts of the book Heroinas negras Brasileiras in 15 cordeis (2020), observing through the perspective of black feminism, literary and linguistic aspects the life story of Carolina Maria de Jesus, Laudelina de Campos Melo, Luisa Mahin and Mariana Crioula. Therefore, the theoretical readings will revolve around the conception of black feminism based on the texts of Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment (2019); Lelia Gonzalez, For an Afro-Latin American Feminism (2020); bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everyone (2018); Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (2016); and the concepts of decolonialism, considering the books Feminist Thoughts Today: Decolonial Perspectives (2020) and Brazilian Feminist Thought: Formation and Context" (2019), both edited by Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda.