PARATOPIA IN “QUARTO DE DESPEJO”, FROM CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS – A VOICE IN/FROM PERIPHERY

Abstract

Purpose : Our research takes the book “Quarto de despejo – diario de uma favelada” , from Carolina Maria de Jesus. Published in 1960 by Francisco Alves, the work had a print run of 100.000 copies, when a book that had an average of four thousand copies printed in the first edition was considered successful. However, after the release of the time, the book was forgotten until, from the late 1990s, when starts new studies and productions seen as marginal literature, and it came again to be published, read and studied as an important milestone of Brazilian culture. Methods : From theoretical and methodological assumptions of the French Discourse Analysis, we will study the ways in which the author, through her work, manages the context of their production, through the concept of paratopia, understanding it as a paradoxical belonging which legitimizes the literary discourse to the extent that, the writer, to comply with its enunciation, must build himself an impossible identity through forms of belonging / not belonging to society. The specific objective is to study more closely the code in the work, as one of the paratopia shifters. Preliminary Results : The pilot analysis shows that there is in the work an investment in language that allows the text and the author to insert in the literary field.