Escrevivência by Conceição Evaristo: A Literary Reconfiguration of Conviviality

This essay examines Conceição Evaristo’s concept of escrevivência – writing grounded in Black lived experience – as a literary practice that reimagines how we live together in unequal societies. Evaristo’s work transforms memory, rhythm, and silence into forms of knowledge and connection, revealing the bonds that sustain community. Her poetics turns language into a space of encounter and reciprocity, where readers are invited to feel, listen, and be moved. Through escrevivência, literature becomes a way to reclaim voice, recover shared humanity, and imagine more just and caring forms of coexistence beyond the limits imposed by social inequality.