abstract
This study is developed in the context of short-story production by Afro-Brazilian female writers in the literary series Cadernos negros (Black Notebooks) (1978-present). The study is aimed to be a critical analysis of some of the most representative short stories of two writers: Conceição Evaristo and Esmeralda Ribeiro, in order to discuss the social portrait of the periphery within the stories. Since they are narrated from an African-Brazilian female perspective, the stories make up a mosaic of our society that reveals exclusion experienced by a significant portion of our population.
Keywords:
Cadernos negros/Black notebooks; Afro-Brazilian women's writing; Conceição Evaristo; Esmeralda Ribeiro; periphery