The Paratopie within Conceição Evaristo's literary discourse

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the paratopia within Conceição Evaristo's literary discourse in the text “A gente combinamos de não morrer”, from the perspective of the Literary Discourse conceptualized by Maingueneau, in order to approach it through the interdisciplinarity between literature and linguistics. For the concept of paratopie, we again use Maingueneau's definitions and we were able to find three that are revealed more explicitly in the text: the paratopie of race, womenand space. In addition, special attention is drawn to the character Bica, who likes to write about her experience, emboding  not only the concept of escrevivência but also the creative paratopie itself.