"MY BROTHERS IN COLOR SKIN": TRAJECTORY, EXPERIENCE AND BLACK AUTHORSHIP IN THE WORK OF CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS (1914-1977)
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In this historiographical essay, the "authorship trajectory" of the black writer Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977) and her contact with the universe of reading and writing are first approached, through a documentary panorama about her manuscripts that were edited and published in the form of books. The press "discovered" Carolina Maria de Jesus in the 1960s, but Brazilian historiography was "a lady of forgetfulness" as it took more than three decades to produce research on the restless black writer of the twentieth century. Next, the narratives and the cultural aspects that go through the elaboration of an "archived memory" are problematized; first in the manuscript diaries and then in the literary field and the historical culture. The "black cinderella" senses, identity and belonging traits are problematized through dialogues with her biographers and through the recent research in the field of Cultural Studies. Finally, we present the theoretical-methodological approach used in this study, inserting the Carolinian narrative in the reflection on trajectory, experience and black authorship.
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