A “OUTRA” NEGRA: a falácia da igualdade a partir de uma análise da subalternidade de raça e de gênero e seus reflexos em Quarto de Despejo

Abstract

The choice of the research topic under analysis occurred due to the uneasiness about the historical inequality that permeates the life of black Brazilian women and also causes their marginalization in society. To do so, the starting point was the following problem: is it possible to perceive the invisibility of discrimination and the subalternity of the black woman through the work Child of the Dark (Quarto de Despejo: diário de uma favelada), by Carolina Maria de Jesus? The hypothesis pointed out, in its turn, is to say that Child of the Dark is in itself an example of the subalternity and invisibility of black women in today's society, which can not be considered as natural by Law. In order to reach the proposed objective, the evolution of human rights and the axiom of equality in the Brazilian juridical order was first outlined, followed later to the analysis of the feminist struggles in favor of this isonomy, emphasizing also the data that reveal the disadvantageous situation on fundamental rights experienced by black women in today's society. After identifying the inequality of the black woman, as a mechanism of resistance, we opted for the analysis of the conceptions of feminist theorists, specially by the concept of "other ", which finds in Simone de Beauvoir and Patricia Hill Collins support to unveil, once again, the social and cultural hierarchy that disqualifies the black woman. Intertwining the whole study, we opted for the bias of Law and Literature, demonstrating the significant contribution of literary fiction to bring to the senses, with wealth of details, the social and legal problems that the population elected for analysis suffers especially, the tradition of "speech place" and traditional social locus. For that, the work Child of the Dark was used. The selection of the work was due to the writing itself and the author's history, poor and black woman, disregarded as a producer of literary work, although she wrote the best-selling national work ever outside Brazil. Even so, Carolina de Jesus did not have her social role recognized in the academic and social environment. The work reveals and unveils the exclusion of a slums dweller that creates her children alone and constantly lives misfortunes of privations. Carolina, as author and character, experiences the research problem pointed out. She is the "other of the other", a portrait of the Brazilian black woman. To reach the proposed objectives, the deductive method was used, based on an exploratory bibliographic research. At the end, the raised work hypothesis was confirmed.