Além do quarto de despejo: bebendo da fonte literária.

Abstract

What is the place of literature in our lives? Does literature contribute to an understanding of the events that surround us? The purpose of this monography is to answer those questions that I have found stimulating as a reader, contributing to the affirmation that literature is real, and intimate to our conflicts. In an age where differences in judgments grow at the speed of light, to hold a literary life leads us to walk in a world of possibilities, improving our understanding of ourselves and others. Based on the literary works of Carolina de Jesus, a peripheric and marginalized author who writes to have her voice heard in a society that excludes black women living in slums, as well as the works of authors dealing with the role of education, women issues and periphery – Antonio Candido, Gloria Anzaldúa, Heloísa Buarque de Holanda, Paulo Freire, and Sergio Vaz – we will demonstrate that literature has the power to transform and to develop us as human beings, helping us to take a stance in our arguments even on context where “difference” is considered inadequate and is doomed to be excluded.