Performance como ato de insubmissão em Ponciá Vicêncio, de Conceição Evaristo

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the novel Ponciá Vicêncio (2017), by Conceição Evaristo, from the perspective of the “spiraling time” (Martins, (2002) and performance (Taylor, 2012). As a category that encompasses several practices, we emphasize the following aspects that can be observed in Evaristo's work: reiteration, confrontation, hybridism, contradiction, concrete action and transgression. These elements will be analyzed in order to think about the articulations established by the characters, highlighting Ponciá and Vô Vicêncio, as ways of breaking with the paths of life predetermined by coloniality. In this sense, we understand the novel as a performative narrative and we understand the performance in this context as an act of insubmission.