Date of Award
8-2023
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
First Advisor
Stephanie Yvette Evans
Second Advisor
Daniel B Coleman
Third Advisor
Cassandra White
Abstract
Assata Shakur and Marielle Franco were activists fighting for racial and gender equality in the United States and Brazil. This work aims to observe their life stories and legacies, analyzing the documentary Marielle: The Crime That Shook Brazil and Assata Shakur’s memoir Assata: An Autobiography. This study will focus on the differences and similarities in their countries’ justice systems and how Franco and Shakur built strategies of resistance to navigate their homeland's necropolitics and also focus on the process of recognizing the self, using the concept of escrevivências. Therefore, observing how their political views and positions directly cause their exile and death. Two methodologies, narrative analysis and analysis of the discourse will uncover the similarities between the discourses presented in the documentary and the autobiography. Pointing out how political consciousness is a significant factor in the life of Black women both in Brazil and the United States.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/35685427
Recommended Citation
Gomes Peixoto, Irimara, "Becoming somebody: Black women’s escrevivências and politics of resistance." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2023.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/35685427
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