Percepções sobre a poética e a supressão literária de Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

Carolina Maria de Jesus was a Brazilian writer of the Xxth century that became popular after the international sales of her book Quarto de Despejo in 1960. Even though she is the author of such genres as journals, poems, songs, short stories, proverbs and novels, the writer was affected by an editorial process that emphasized on the documental aspects of her texts on her daily life inside the Canindé slum in São Paulo. Despite the literary importance of the first book, her other works, which were published before Carolina passed away, were ignored by both the academy and the readership. Therefore, the objectives of this present work were to indicate the position of black women writers on literature and the Brazilian social context, to present a compilation of studies about the poetic in the author’s works and the processes of literary suppression that affected her legacy and, lastly, to explore Carolina’s production in other genres, specially poetry.