Banca de DEFESA: ELAINE ALVES DA SILVA

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STUDENT : ELAINE ALVES DA SILVA
DATE: 30/09/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

Between Boards and Zinc: the diary as a space ofexperience in Quarto de Despejo (1955-1960)

KEY WORDS:

Carolina Maria de Jesus; Quarto de Despejo; space of experience; representation; escrevivência.

PAGES: 145
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

Based on the work Quarto de Despejo: Diary of a Favelada (1960), by Carolina Maria de Jesus, and complementary sources, such as editions of the magazines O Cruzeiro, Revista Manchete, and newspapers from the 1950s, this dissertation analyzes the diary as a space of experience, with a temporal focus from 1955 to 1960 (1955 being the year of the author's first records and 1960 the year of publication) and a spatial focus on the Canindé favela in São Paulo. Carolina's writing constructs a unique representation of the marginalized environment, shaped by sensoriality, memory, and everyday life, while her public image was influenced by the press of the period. The study investigates how Carolina’s diaries elaborate a space of existence, revealing social relations, sensorial perceptions of the environment, and the mediated dimension of the work, expressed through the processes of pre-production, editing, and publication of Quarto de Despejo. Anchored in the Sociology of Literature, according to Pierre Bourdieu, the research articulates text, context, and social trajectory to understand the materialization of both the work and Carolina’s figure in the public sphere. The theoretical framework also includes: the concept of escrevivência, formulated by Conceição Evaristo, as a key to reading the fusion of lived experience and literary production; the contributions of Roger Chartier and Stuart Hall regarding representation, analyzing the circulation and re-elaboration of Carolina’s image; Yi-Fu Tuan’s reflections on the relationship between sensoriality and lived reality; and Michel de Certeau’s ideas, which explain how the author’s multiple experiences in the environment confer existential and symbolic density to the narrative. Thus, the dissertation demonstrates that Carolina Maria de Jesus, through diary writing, constructed a powerful and complex representation of her concrete experience, simultaneously shaped by editorial and media mediations that influenced her public and literary reception.

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