As casas de Carolina: Espaços femininos de resistência, escrita e memória

Abstract

Thinking on possible links between woman’s writing and homeplace, this paperwork presents a comparative study of three Carolina Maria de Jesus’ books: Quarto de despejo (published in English as Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus), Casa de alvenaria (I’m going to have a little house: the second diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus), and Diário de Bitita (Bitita’s Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus). Writing and homeplace can be both considered as spaces of women’s self-elaboration and here they permeate a comprehension of Carolina’s diaries, considering: i) home as space of resistance; ii) the Carolina’s houses as places of writing and archiving; iii) home as a perspective, and iv) cartography of imagined homeplaces.