Escrevivência as a Theory of Diasporic Narrative Heritage.
This article studies a theoretical term for diasporic cultural production proposed by the contemporary Black Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo—escrevivência. Evaristo’s first novel, Becos da Mem´oria ([2006] 2017)—semiautobiographical remembrances of a midcentury favela community during its evicti...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 36 - 55 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2025
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