Ejoyctment of Words: Re-Reading the First Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n254825

Abstract

Carolina Maria de Jesus’ debut work, Quarto de despejo [Child of the Dark], was a bestseller,
although her next works were shrouded in a deep silence in Brazil. Seeking to situate this silence in the question related to the figure of a writer who is “poor, black and woman”, I intend to re-read her first diaries and suggest certain aspects of her fertile work with language, demonstrating a powerful and emancipatory process of subjectivation, albeit not free of ambiguities.

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Rafael Guimarães Tavares da Silva, UFMG (Mestrando)

Estudante de Língua e Literatura Clássicas (Grego Antigo), mestrando no POS-LIT da UFMG, com interesses que vão da Filosofia e da História (Antigas e Contemporâneas) à Teoria da Literatura, além de teoria e prática da Tradução. Trabalha diversos temas relacionados à literatura e ao teatro, em abordagens marcadas principalmente pelo viés da desconstrução e do pós-estruturalismo. Elaborou uma monografia sobre Uma poética de Platão e desenvolve uma dissertação chamada Arqueologias do drama: uma arqueologia dramática. Atualmente participa da organização do Seminário de Estudos Clássicos e Medievais, ligado ao NEAM, e leciona, desde 2016, a disciplina de Literatura Comparada (e anteriormente também a de Linguística Comparada) no Apoio Pedagógico da FALE-UFMG.

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2019-09-05

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Silva, R. G. T. da. (2019). Ejoyctment of Words: Re-Reading the First Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Revista Estudos Feministas, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n254825

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2019)

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