Name: KAMILLAN BENEVENUTO DE SOUZA

Publication date: 26/07/2022
Advisor:

Name	Role
MARIA MIRTIS CASER	Advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
ESTER ABREU VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRA	Internal Examiner *
FABRÍCIA BITTENCOURT PAZINATTO VAGO	External Alternate *
JOÃO CLAUDIO ARENDT	Internal Alternate *
MARIA MIRTIS CASER	Advisor *
MARIANA MARISE FERNANDES LEITE	External Examiner *

Summary: This research proposes a literary feminist analysis of the work Quarto de Despejo.
Drawing from a decolonial feminist epistemology, it sheds light into a new
understanding of the work and of the resistant writing of Carolina Maria de Jesus. It
reflects on the role of the author as part of the feminist Brazilian writers’ movement that
collaborates to tension the margins imposed by the dominant ideology in the literary
field. Most of the previous analysis made of Quarto de Despejo have privileged
historical and social perspectives, elaborating essays about the life and work of the
author. This study argues that, however, they have imprisoned the author in projections
that neglect her literature as means to resist the political and social context of that time.
In this analysis, Carolina’s writing is assumed a s a way to express her subjectivity, as
a reaffirmation of gender, race and class. The literary work is seen as resistant writing.
KEYWORDS: Carolina Maria de Jesus – Quarto de Despejo; decolonial feminism;
feminist literary criticism

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