ESTRANHAMENTOS E RUPTURAS NA OBRA QUARTO DE DESPEJO, DE CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS

Abstract

The canonical literature, which in itself is racist, in the course of its development has corroborated the process of injustice, violence and violation of the rights and dignity of the human person. This literature has excluded those who were left out by History and contributed/reinforced with the stifling of black voices in our society. In other words, it has been an accomplice to the processes of exclusion, marginalization and violence carried out in human history. Why can Quarto de Despejo: diary of a favelada (1995) be considered authentic literature? Carolina Maria de Jesus, based on her speech, presents the reality of the favela, the portrait of hunger, violence and human marginalization. The authenticity, originality, creativity of what she wrote was/is not considered by some scholars as literature. Estrangements and ruptures in the work Quarto de Despejo, by Carolina Maria de Jesus, emphasizes the vocation of the writer as a poet, her notorious intellectuality, including the strong traits of an existentialist literature and her fierce realism in her work, and the pedagogy of Hunger developed by the writer, especially in her best-known work. In order to support the analyzes undertaken during the research, we will use as theoretical support: Divina Perpétua (2014); Tom Farias (2018); Raffaella Fernandez (2019), Amanda Crispim (2022) and Jacques Rancière (2020).