Insurgência Feminina: Uma trajetória de lutas e conquistas na obra "Quarto de Despejo".

Abstract

Abstract

The Brazilian socio-historical context refers to the structural patriarchy in which gender, class and race were the determinants for significant social recognition. Since the colonization of the country, women have been silenced from their narratives and performances, almost always leaving a timid role as supporting characters in history. These representations become even more erased when we refer to the role of black women. Despite the timid advances, the situation of women, especially black women, is far from fair, as in general, they have low salaries that are disproportionate to men's wages, low representation in the various fields of the social spheres, in addition to being the main target of necropolitics established in the country, according to data from IBGE (2018), Mbembe (2016) and Almeida (2020),  Souza (2021), Gonzales (1984), Ribeiro (2019) and Akotirene (2020). However, in the face of this hostile scenario, some women managed to circumvent the harsh historical reality and stood out through their narratives and trajectories. An example of this is the writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, when describing in the book Quarto de despejo, published in 1960, the reality lived in the community of Canindé in São Paulo. Thus, the objective of this work is to investigate, from the work, the elements that made up the profile of this black woman. To understand the subject of the research, we will bring to the discussion other women such as Davis (2016), González (1984), Ribeiro (2018, 2019), Hooks (2013, 2014). As a methodological approach, we adopted hermeneutics to perform the analysis, since philosophy and literature are related in the critical and interpretative space of the work.

Keywords: Brazilian women; Structural racism; Literature; Authored by women.