Identidad a Contrapelo : Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus (São Paulo, 1950-1960)

At twenty three years of age, Carolina Maria de Jesus leaves Franca, in the south west of Brazil, to move to São Paulo. Carolina portrays her precarious life in the favela of Canindé in this big city in Quarto de Despejo (1960). Carolina longs for a better quality of life, but instead finds herself...

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Autor principal:	Mariela Méndez
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2009
Materias:	diary favela female subjectivity gender and race oriented hegemonic discourses Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:574770c4b92944b4bf0180287e5625d62021-12-02T10:28:04ZIdentidad a Contrapelo : Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus (São Paulo, 1950-1960)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.57713https://doaj.org/article/574770c4b92944b4bf0180287e5625d62009-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/57713https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252At twenty three years of age, Carolina Maria de Jesus leaves Franca, in the south west of Brazil, to move to São Paulo. Carolina portrays her precarious life in the favela of Canindé in this big city in Quarto de Despejo (1960). Carolina longs for a better quality of life, but instead finds herself discriminated against because of her class, race and gender, even after abandoning the favela. At the same time, in so far as she is an active subject, she builds an “identity against the grain” – of gender, class, and race challenging both hegemonic discourses of the canon and of the literary tradition. This article explores the construction of a transgressive subjectivity as an emblematic model of a woman writer portraying the act of taking up the pen against the stereotypes that mark her and confine her.Mariela MéndezCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticlediaryfavelafemale subjectivitygender and race oriented hegemonic discoursesAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2009)
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description	At twenty three years of age, Carolina Maria de Jesus leaves Franca, in the south west of Brazil, to move to São Paulo. Carolina portrays her precarious life in the favela of Canindé in this big city in Quarto de Despejo (1960). Carolina longs for a better quality of life, but instead finds herself discriminated against because of her class, race and gender, even after abandoning the favela. At the same time, in so far as she is an active subject, she builds an “identity against the grain” – of gender, class, and race challenging both hegemonic discourses of the canon and of the literary tradition. This article explores the construction of a transgressive subjectivity as an emblematic model of a woman writer portraying the act of taking up the pen against the stereotypes that mark her and confine her.
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title	Identidad a Contrapelo : Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus (São Paulo, 1950-1960)
title_short	Identidad a Contrapelo : Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus (São Paulo, 1950-1960)
title_full	Identidad a Contrapelo : Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus (São Paulo, 1950-1960)
title_fullStr	Identidad a Contrapelo : Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus (São Paulo, 1950-1960)
title_full_unstemmed	Identidad a Contrapelo : Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus (São Paulo, 1950-1960)
title_sort	identidad a contrapelo : subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de carolina maria de jesus (são paulo, 1950-1960)
publisher	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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Identidad a Contrapelo : Subjetividad femenina y espacios urbanos en el diario de Carolina Maria de Jesus (São Paulo, 1950-1960)

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