Registro do abandono social em quarto de despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus.

Abstract

The corpus of this research is the daily book Quarto de despejo (2021), by Carolina Maria de Jesus, published in 1960 and aims to analyze how the work Quarto de despejo (2021), by Carolina Maria de Jesus, is constituted as a space for problematization of Brazilian society in the 1960s. In this article, it is observed how the black female authorial voice is an important channel of denunciation and sociocultural reflections around people and life in the periphery.In addition to this aspect, the importance of Carolina Maria de Jesus for Brazilian literary studies with gender and intersectionality themes is also discussed. This research is theoretically based on the authors Bell Hooks, Conceição Evaristo, Fabiana Moraes, Lélia Gonzales and Djamila Ribeiro. When published, Quarto de despejo suffered resistance from literary critics who did not consider it to have literary value, perhaps because it was a work set in the favela, written by a black woman, self-taught, single mother, poor and resident of the favela of Canindé-SP. In her diary, her sharp political vision, criticisms of racial prejudice, awareness of the role of women in society and reflections on the lack of opportunities for poor and slum dwellers can be seen. Quarto de despejo, written in 1955, portrays the reality of many Brazilians still in the year 2022.