Black Brazilian Feminisms: From Page, to Stage, to Screen

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1 Conceição Evaristo has brought up on various occasions the many obstacles she had faced for years before finally achieving critical recognition. In a 2018 interview, she stated: “Que regras são essas da sociedade brasileira para vermos uma mulher virar um expoente no campo da literatura só aos 71 anos? . . . . É preciso questionar essas regras e dinâmicas sociais, culturais e econômicas que tornam tudo muito mais difícil para as pessoas negras” (What rules are these in Brazilian society that a woman only becomes an outstanding figure in the field of literature at the age of 71? . . . We have to question those social, cultural, and economic rules and dynamics that make everything much more difficult for Black people) (Interview with Júlia Dias Carneiro. http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-43324948. Accessed on 18 April 2018).

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Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey

Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, is a writer, scholar, translator, and Visiting Associate Professor at Washington and Lee University. She writes on issues of gender and race in works by modern and contemporary Latin American women writers, with a special interest in authors from Brazil and Argentina. She has published extensively in scholarly journals, as well as her own creative works, and translations of Brazilian literature into English. Her translation of Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Ursula (1859) will be published in 2021.