SOCIO-HISTORIC ASPECTS AND THE SPEECH OF CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS IN THE WASTE ROOM: DIARY OF A FAVELADA (1960)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze, based on the work of Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada (1960), socio-historical aspects present in the work, such as the historical context and the social and political conditions that Carolina experienced during the writing of her diary; the precarious living conditions of the marginalized in the favela; the issues of race and gender addressed by her at the end of the 50s, as well as perceiving the speech of the author, a black and poor woman, in a hostile, but also sensitive and authentic way, aiming to understand how the author's voice portrays and denounces the living conditions in the favelas. The work will be analyzed through the perspective of dialectical literary criticism. According to the adopted methodology, the research is of a bibliographic nature, characterized as qualitative critical analysis. Thus, the procedure is to resort to an attentive and detailed reading of the work Quarto de despejo from the perspective and dialogue with the authors: Candido (2006), Leeds and Leeds (2015), Meihy (1998), Meihy and Levine (2015), Carvalho (2016), Tavares (2010), Cardoso (1977), Bahia (2000), González (1984), Sousa and Dias (2013) and Evaristo (2014).