“Corpo, discurso e território: a cidade em disputa nas dobras da narrativa de Carolina Maria de Jesus (2015)” [Body, discourse and territory: the city in dispute in the narrative folds of Carolina Maria de Jesus] by Gabriela Leandro Pereira | PhD Thesis

Abstract: “This thesis proposes to navigate through the narrative written by the Brazilian writer Carolina de Jesus (1914-1977) and its folds, tightening places of dispute, conflicts, and creation which traverses and (re)produces in a city. Carolina-woman, black, poor, migrant, nomad, “favelada”. The choice of the writer and her narrative as main character of this thesis, happened on behalf of the understanding that behind-the-scenes of her writings, occur a process focuses on deconstruction of a few, criminalization of their lives , their bodies and their territory. Meanwhile perverse actions intended to “racialização” of the poverty and the violence, those processes accumulate themselves and drags on times, bringing to nowadays not only a distant echo of a past of violations, but a lively and violent ways of life exploration on a daily basis. A way out found by Carolina to escape of the discourse. With the publication of fragments of her daily journals (the first one translated as “Child of the Dark” in 1960) the writer provokes. An unpredictable writer, from an unlikely place whose unconventional discourse battles the narrative of the city. In her “escrevivências”, the city is drafted, bringing to visibility not only the territory of the slums, but also her uncomfortable presence, which refreshes nowadays.”

 

This doctoral thesis, written by Gabriela Leandro Pereira and supervised by Prof. Dr. Ana Maria Fernandes, was defended in 2015 as part of the Doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia. A copy of the thesis, which was later published as a book, is available in Portuguese and in open access on the ABPN – Brazilian Association of Black Researchers website.

ANO

2015

AUTORES

Gabriela Leandro Pereira

EDITORES

Prof. Dra. Ana Maria Fernandes