Filhas da diáspora: corpos femininos e as várias formas de violência em Esse cabelo e Essa dama bate bué!

Abstract

The possible forms of violence for a subject in diaspora are countless and when limited to the female gender they multiply. Mila and Vitória, characters from Esse Cabelo (2015), by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, and Essa dama Bate Bué! (2018), by Yara Monteiro, resize the understanding and the analysis of the violent dynamics that occurred during the period of decolonization in Angola, and later in transit post-colonial in the constituent developments of figurations of stereotypes that accompany their personalities until today. This article aims to analyze, from the stereotypes imposed on mestizo bla-ckness, how the dynamics of colonial representations affect the characters from childhood and in the family environment itself, a space that should refer to security, but ends up being the place of initial projection of the fragmentation of the diasporic subject.