Estilhaçando a máscara do silenciamento: a potente literatura negra de Conceição Evaristo.

This article aims to reflect on the formation of the Brazilian literary canon and discuss the concept of Black literature in view of the work of the Brazilian Black writer Conceição Evaristo. The canon is surrounded by a bubble of a-historicity, however, its formation is directly linked to the structure of the country's society (REIS, 1992), which is racist, classist and cisheterossexist. Thus, it is perceived that this is composed mainly of white men. In this sense, Black literature shatters the mask of silence, since it breaks with the colonizing perspective taken on the Black people through literary production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]