Carolina Maria de Jesus e Clareece Precious Jones: diários e resistência

Abstract

This dissertation’s subject is to study the black narratives The Trash Room, written by the Brazilian Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Push, whose author is the American Sapphire. Through the analysis of the speeches produced by Afro-descendant writers, the aim is to ascertain the representation of black people, in narratives that expose questions about their condition, the image of black women, violence, identity, memory and the place of speech of women. communities from the African Diaspora. It is intended to demonstrate how these black narratives are articulated between the space-time of the places of belonging and how the historical content is organized in the face of the importance of the discourse of otherness, of the black writers, in the criticism and literary canon. In addition, we introduced the concepts that have been developed, over time, about the definitions of black literature, in Brazil and in the United States, and of the diaspora, in order to collaborate with the reflections around the “lived-write” stories, that emerge from urban peripheries