Escrita como existência e resistência mulher negra na Literatura Brasileira de Língua Portuguesa - uma leitura a partir de Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

This article examines how Carolina Maria de Jesus's literary production contributes to the discursive construction of Black woman in Portuguese-language literature by analyzing the works Diário de Bitita and Child of the Dark. It hypothesizes that these narratives articulate memory, experience, and resistance, thereby enabling the re-signification of historically marginalized Black subjectivity and the protagonism of historically silenced subjects. For a long time, Carolina's writing was frequently reduced to its social function, as if this were the only competence admitted to the author. However, this study reveals the author's agency in becoming a subject of enunciation through a poetics of the everyday, presenting a relevant literary aesthetic with a counter-hegemonic narrative of resistance that displaces the regimes of truth construction. Therefore, decolonial feminism is employed as a theoretical framework, paying attention to intersectionality and the concept of "escrevivência" (a term coined by Conceição Evaristo, roughly translating to "writing from lived experience"), which allows for an understanding of new Black female subjectivities within the context of Brazilian Literature in the Portuguese Language. Methodologically, a qualitative, interpretative approach was adopted, with textual analysis of the literary corpus.