Violências interseccionais e a escrita como resistência : a experiência da mulher negra imigrante nas obras No fundo do poço (1972) e Cidadã de segunda classe (1974), de Buchi Emecheta

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the intersection of violence against the bodies of racialized Black women in a colonial and postcolonial context, based on the works "Second-Class Citizen" (2018) and "At the Bottom of the Well" (2019) by Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta. Using fictional narrative to bring to light the oppressions of race, class, and gender that she has suffered since childhood, Emecheta denounces patriarchal violence and other types of aggression directed at her body due to the social markers that shape the lives of racialized women worldwide. It is through education and writing that the author, like the central character of the works analyzed, Adah Obi, finds a way to make sense of her life during a time of hopelessness and hardship as an immigrant, revealing the still-recent effects of colonialism. Thus, this work uses understandings from postcolonial studies and postcolonial feminism in order to understand literature and the production of knowledge from subalternized peoples as a way to amplify the voices of silenced subjects.