Narrativa, memória e identidade em quarto de despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

This work aims to reflect on memory, narrative and black female identity in Quarto de Despejo: diário de uma favelada, by Carolina Maria de Jesus. For this purpose, it is essential to investigate the concepts of black and peripheral literature in Brazil, as well as the understanding of the female universe of Carolina de Jesus, marked by questions of class, gender and ethnicity. Woman black and “favelada” constitute the triad for the interpretation of this monography. In addition, we seek to understand the narrative structure, the essential themes narrated by Carolina that relate memory and the experience of exclusion, making us reflect not only on strictly social issues, but the restrictions in the intellectual environment and in Brazilian literary criticism. In Carolina Maria de Jesus, the aesthetic experience and the critical understanding of reality are present in a narrative that reveals multiple dimensions of the black female condition in Brazil.