Escreve, Carolina! Resiste, Carolina! Tessituras da escrita de resistência

Abstract

In spite of the operationalizations of silencing exercised by the strategies of maintenance of hegemonic power, unsubmissive literary voices seem to imbricate meanings of resistance to the writing they conceive, breaking imposed domains to which the invisibility of their bodies-texts are conducted. Infrequently, studies of literary criticism demonstrate to understand writing as a weapon or instrument of resistance. This work, however, investigates writing as a gesture, an act in itself of resisting, concatenated to ways of living. In this sense, analyses of biographical and written data of the vast production of the writer and intellectual Carolina Maria de Jesus are carried out in the search to try to understand how modes of resistance, surrounded by the reaches, limits and paradoxes of this black woman, are concatenated with her literary writing. To this purpose, it reflects on the birth of her writing (JESUS, 2015), as well as on the aesthetic and discursive choices of Carolina Maria de Jesus as subject[a] étinic[a] of the discourse (CUTI, 2010), that move between the refined vocabulary and the pretuguês (GONZALEZ, 2020). Seeking to understand what would be the perspectives and meanings of resistance performed in writing, the discussions dialogue with the conceptions of quilombo, as an institution of resistance (NASCIMENTO, 2006) and Quilombism, as an ideology of resistance (NASCIMENTO, 1985). Following these paths, guided by the writings of Carolina Maria de Jesus, as a kind of cartography, fosters the construction of the concept of resistance writing. A subversive diction that is outlined in the tessitura and writing of the literary text, projecting not only combative perspectives; that, articulating aesthetic and ethical aspects, translates in a powerful way rationality, disobedience and the claim of rights, among them that of writing; and which, undertaken above all by female diasporic bodies, makes us think of writing as the materiality of resistant existences.