Abstract

GARCIA ZAMORA, Ericka. Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora by Maryse Condé:Who would we be if God were a woman?. Comunicación [online]. 2023, vol.32, n.1, pp.40-51. ISSN 1659-3820.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18845/rc.v31i44.6793.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the literary work ''Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora'' by Maryse Condé in attention to the representation of girls’ childhood and its process of identity construction, in a particular context linked to blackness; and the interpretation of the violent character of education, understood as a colonizing control mechanism. Finally, this reflection is articulated with a work of the artistic and adversarial practice of Harmonia Rosales, an African American artist who poses a profound, political, and revealing question: Who said that God could not be a black woman? All the above, through the execution of a content and iconographic analysis of both works, assumed as semiotic resources susceptible of analysis. The study was developed within the framework of the doctoral course Bodies, power, and subjectivity. It is concluded that artistic production is a fundamental space to reverse the processes of colonization and the recovery of memory (individual and collective) from the own place and the singular voice of the creative person, since the formal formative processes do not correspond to the experiences and convictions of historically invisible and excluded population groups. In this sense, both Condé’s and Rosales’ works effectively constitute a counter-discourse or alternative political discourse.

Keywords : Ethnic discrimination; childhood; black feminism; sexism; racism; decolonization.

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