“Nelas próprias e nos filhos nascidos dos estupros, mulheres que encontraram uma fonte viva de coragem e a força para sobreviver” na obra A Mulher de Pés Descalços, de Scholastique Mukasonga

Abstract

This work presents, from the concepts of race and gender, African literature, focusing on the representation of black tutsi women. The research source is the work "The woman with bare feet", by Scholastique Mukasonga. The research starts from the interest in studying the history of Africa and using African literature as a tool to highlight the cultural experiences of Africans, especially women. The research question is: how is the representation of black tutsi women presented in the literary text about their material and immaterial culture? From the perspective of black feminism, female representations will be analyzed and, to respond, we present the main aspects of Banyarwanda society, which was socially divided between Tutsi and Hutus, and how this division was influenced by the colonial process and by the actions of the Hutus, which culminated in the Hutu manifesto and the 1994 conflict. In the sequence, categories such as female relations of solidarity, work, formal education, and motherhood, based on the theories of authors such as bell hooks, Grada Kilomba, and Patrícia Hill Collins, will be used to analyze the representation of black tutsi women in the literary text, identifying how their material and immaterial culture is portrayed. Hopefully, this study will contribute to expanding knowledge about African literature, the representation of black tutsi women, and issues of race and gender. In addition, this work aims to strengthen the debate around black feminism and its contributions to understanding the experience of black women in specific historical and cultural contexts