The Enslaved Women in the Work A Color Defect by Ana Maria Gonçalves: What Says the Post-Colonial?

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the subordinate and enslaved black character from the period of colonial Brazil -Kehinde -included in the work A Color Defect, by Ana Maria Gonçalves (2010), discussing the challenges to survive and highlighting the role of the enslaved woman portrayed at the time as the other, the despicable, marginalized being, excluded from society. Through Kehinde's narrative, the author echoes the resistance of female voices seeking to denounce the complex world of slavery. The specific objective is to contribute to the theoretical-critical debate in Brazilian History by showing the role of the black woman. We will adopt the postcolonial theoretical approach because it will provide another and corrected historical perspective. The results show that it is possible to see peripheral, subordinate peoples through the deconstruction of the various aspects of colonial basis in a postcolonial perspective, reinterpreting history from the perspective of the colonized, redimensioning their relationship and the different forms of discrimination.