Carolina Maria de Jesus’ carnival: dodging gender and class interdicts
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2018v35p21Keywords:
Carolina Maria de Jesus, Manuscripts, Black feminism, Gender studiesAbstract
These thoughts address the construction of femininity and the female in face of patriarchal discourses which power relations between the genders are based on. Some of those relations, especially when it comes to the black and poorly schooled female, gain prominence when the literary realm is delimited. Although the belles lettres and sociological discourses have both endeavored to straitjacket Carolina Maria de Jesus to her testimonial writing, as a witness to poverty, the Brazilian writer creatively challenged such interdicts with multiple genres, personae, and performances, including those of a poet, a fiction writer, and playwright, among others. One must read both the non-edited writings by Carolina Maria de Jesus and her performing appropriation of those writings to ensure a broader grasp of her class, genre, and gender transgressions.References
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