Do quarto de despejo à sala de visita: experiência e narrativa nos diários de Carolina Maria de Jesus (1955-1961)

Abstract

This work intents to analise Maria Carolina de Jesus' two books, Quarto de Despejo (1960) and Casa de Alvenaria (1961), both consisting of diaires from the author between 1955-1961. The first one was written during the time she lived in the Favela do Canindé - São Paulo. Continuation of the first, the second was written after the successful sales of her first book, after witch Carolina goes on to live in a middle class neiborhood and mingle amongst intelectual circles. Based on the reflection of narrative and experience, these two Works are interpreted as significant elaborations about the historical processes in witch they are inserted into. Both naratives offer an interesting way to investigate the transformations happening in Brazil at the time, from the perspective of a singular individual, nevertheless, she faced some of the main issues of her time: the economical and social transformations in a city witch was center of industrialization, the cultural dinamics and the apropiations of a popular culture that renews itself whithin the context of these transformations, the possibilities of survival and of social insertion of folk layers in the urban world, the raising of new manners of social participations and their limits .