Uma análise discursiva da escrevivência de Carolina Maria de Jesus na obra quarto de despejo

Abstract

In this dissertation, we carried out a study that, by using discourse analysis, sought to go beyond the selection of terms to reach the social. That means that it did not focus only on the elaboration of the writings, but that it extrapolated the text and that, in this way, it was able to break the secular silence, which silenced, and still silences, black women who make out of paper, speech and literature means to reveal themselves, and seek to unveil, through the word, their being and being black in the world. For this, seeking to understand the work writing by Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada, we used Fairclough's proposal, for whom discourse is a mode of representation and resignification of the world and people, it is a social and not an individual practice. Therefore, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) constitutes the basis for a study that seeks to legitimize black women in literature, as it has in its assumptions a theoreticalmethodological perspective for linguistic and socially oriented analyses. Furthermore, we use the notion of necropolitics proposed by Achille Mbembe (2018), for whom the State, in its sovereignty, has the right to choose who can live and who can die, from Spivak's (2010) studies on subordination, a situation that it affects black people in general and the female gender more strongly. We also consulted the work of other decolonial theorists who contributed to the analysis, as well as black feminist voices such as bell hooks, Lélia Gonzalez and Conceição Evaristo. For the methodology, we will rely on the qualitative research proposed by Minayo. Among the textual analysis categories proposed by the CDA, vocabulary and grammar, will be tried, seeking to understand the lexical choices made by Carolina in her diary and with which meanings they were used, in addition to addressing the socioeconomic conditions in which Carolina lives and the importance of reading and writing in her life. With regard to the second category of Fairclough's threedimensional analysis model – called discursive practice – we will analyze the relationship between language and society, considering the context experienced by Carolina. In Fairclough's third analytical category – social practice, we will address ideological and hegemonic issues. However, we understand that categorization does not exhaust the analysis, as we seek to go beyond description, providing a critical analysis of the realities of injustices and inequalities, thus promoting social change.