REPRESENTAÇÕES DA INTELECTUALIDADE NEGRA NA OBRA“DIÁRIO DE BITITA”, DE CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to uncover the intellectuality of black women in the work Diário de Bitita by the renowned writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, a woman who, with unique singularity, describes the antagonistic situations faced in her childhood and which, in a way, boosted her ability to reveal to the public the cruelties imposed on black women in Brazil, but which have not always been privileged in the Brazilian canon that has belatedly recognized the intellectuality of black women. The study was bibliographic and descriptive in nature. We analyzed the work of Jesus (1986) and sought support in other studies that discuss the theme of discrimination, social stratification, prejudice experienced by the black population such as those of Bernd (2000), Bobbio (1998, 2000), Gramsci (2000, 2006), Moore (2012), Nascimento (2016), Saffioti (1987), Santiago (2012), Santiago (2017), Woolf (2018), among others. At the end of the study, we conclude that the memorial narrative Bitita's Diary is an invaluable work, written by a woman who had little access to formal education, but that by possessing a visionary, critical-reflexive look, denounces evils that still remain present in the lives of thousands of black, poor women, valued only for the exploitation of their labor force for the maintenance of the privileges of the elitist class.