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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Carolina_Maria_de_JesusCarolina Maria de Jesus - Wikipedia

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   Carolina Maria de Jesus (14 March 1914 [1] – 13 February 1977 [2]) was a Brazilian outskirts memoirist who lived most of her life as a slum-dweller. She is best known for her diary, published in August 1960 as Quarto de Despejo (lit. "Junk Room") after attracting the attention of a Brazilian journalist, which became a bestseller and won ...

2. www.aaihs.org › posthumous-authority-revisitingPosthumous Authority: Revisiting Carolina Maria de Jesus

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   Oct 17, 2023 · Critics’ increasing scrutiny, rejection of, and silence to Carolina Maria de Jesus up to her death, as biographers Tom Farias, Robert M. Levine, and José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy have shown, framed her as an eccentric tragic figure unable to adapt to a middle-class life.

3. read.dukeupress.edu › hahr › articleChild of the Dark. The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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   In 1947, when she was thirty-four years of age, Carolina Maria de Jesus came to the favela of Canindé, one of the slums of the Brazilian city of São Paulo.

   • Author: Carolina Maria de Jesus, David James St. Clair

   • Publish Year: 1963

4. borgenproject.org › carolina-maria-de-jesus-lifeCarolina Maria de Jesus: Life in Favelas - The Borgen Project

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   Carolina Maria de Jesus’s diaries published in Room of Garbage (1960) explore her life in the favelas of Sao Paulo, where she would later die in poverty.

5. www.encyclopedia.com › humanities › encyclopediasJesus, Carolinamaria de (1914–1977) | Encyclopedia.com

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   Carolina Maria de Jesus (b. 1914; d. 1977), Brazilian writer. A fiercely proud black woman, Jesus spent most of her life in obscurity, raising her three children in São Paulo's Canindé Favela, and supporting herself and them by scavenging paper.

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   de Jesus, Carolina Maria. March 14, 1914 February 13, 1977. Born illegitimate and impoverished in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Carolina Maria de Jesus had to overcome a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles throughout her lifetime just to survive.

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   Who was Carolina Maria de Jesus?

   • Carolina Maria de Jesus was born in 1914 in Sacramento, Minas Gerais, which at that time was a small rural town. Her parents were illiterate sharecroppers. She was the daughter of a single mother, and her father was married to another woman. For those reasons, she was treated as an outcast as a child and was a victim of child mistreatment.

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   How did Carolina Maria de Jesus survive?

   • Born illegitimate and impoverished in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Carolina Maria de Jesus had to overcome a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles throughout her lifetime just to survive. During her childhood, de Jesus had few educational opportunities, taking only two years of formal schooling.

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   What did Carolina Maria de Jesus say?

   • And so, when her book was finally published and a state senator asked for her autograph, she wrote: “I hope that you give the poor people what they need and stop putting all the tax money into your own pocket. Sincerely, Carolina Maria de Jesus” (p. 14).

   Child of the Dark. The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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   Why did Carolina Maria de Jesus not want people dictating her life?

   • A possible explanation for that may be that she did not want anyone dictating how she lived. Regardless of the reason, de Jesus remained true to her beliefs and did not conform to the way of life of the favela. Carolina Maria de Jesus had a great cultural impact on Brazil.

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   What impact did Carolina Maria de Jesus have on Brazil?

   • Carolina Maria de Jesus had a great cultural impact on Brazil. Her decision to write about the struggles of the community versus strictly about her own struggles was something unprecedented in Brazil and was a perspective that was appreciated internationally De Jesus wrote another four books after Quarto de despejo, to a scanty success.

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   How many languages did Carolina Maria de Jesus write?

   • Though written in the simple language of a favela dweller, the book was translated into thirteen (another source says fourteen) languages and became a bestseller in North America and Europe. It was published in the United States and UK as Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus in 1962.

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8. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsThe Cautionary Tale of Carolina Maria de Jesus | Latin ...

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   Oct 5, 2022 · Carolina Maria de Jess was a fiercely proud black Brazilian woman who lived in a So Paulo favela with her three illegitimate children (each with a different father). She had learned to read and write by continuing to study on her own after only two years of primary school.