Tragar no corpo, verter em palavras: a escrita da solidão em Quarto de despejo

Abstract

This dissertation detains itself on a writing about loneliness displayed in The trash room (1960), work of the black writer Carolina Maria de Jesus. Analyses the way that Carolina express a lonely I in her diary, evaluating the crossings of daily experiences that culminated in a founding solitude, a phenomenon capable of structuring affective relationships inside and outside of the Canindé slum, localized in the capital of São Paulo, Brazil, place where the writer lived with their children during the 1950 decade. Loneliness seems to be seize of everywhere, having a vast netting of meanings (PACHECO, 2013) that acts as wires conductors of significance in the reading of Quarto de despejo, crossing misery, hunger, abandonment, struggle for life, frustrations and dreams of Carolina. Her body and her diary were redoubts of loneliness. For this interpretative analysis, this work is organized as follows: on a first moment, investigates the construction of the ground narrative express on work, exploring the sharing of stories between Carolina Maria de Jesus and the other subjects of the slum, have on focus the affections who gave substance to the writing of her own solitude, an elementary part of her living-writing; then, reflects on the particularity of this loneliness, questioning certain understandings about the word “loneliness”, established in a universal logic that ignores the existence of people like Carolina Maria de Jesus, conditioned to a specific loneliness, firmed, above all, in their black bodies; finally maps the loneliness on places traveled by the writer, analyzing the way she perceived herself alone and pointed to multiples violences that converged in different aspects of a loneliness experienced between the slum and the center of São Paulo city. In Quarto de despejo, loneliness is exhibited according to a gradation of colors and images, reacting to movements that swings and interferes with the way that can be capture. Therefore, is no possible close Carolina Maria de Jesus in a fixed image of loneliness, just as one can not imprison the expression of her lonely I in a single sense of the word. The analysis of the theme reveals that Carolina’s loneliness was not restricted to the bitterness of knowing herself as alone. It was not an inoperable loneliness, which stagnates the subject in his own helplessness. Under certain circumstances, solitude portrayed by the narrative was pure potency, a creative force capable of acting in the elaboration of a work aimed at the survival of those who suffers on the margins. To reach that knowledge, a constant dialogue with black intellectuals is maintained. These are: Conceição Evaristo (2008), Achille Mbembe (2014), Frantz Fanon (2008) bell hooks (1995), Grada Kilomba (2018), Patricia Hill Collins (2016), Neusa Souza (1983), Milton Santos (1979), among others, whose theoretical contributions are fundamental for the execution of this work and are spread throughout the proposed discussion.