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Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria De Jesus,Robert M. Levine,Beth Joan Vinkler,Emanuelle Oliveira

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Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria De Jesus,Robert M. Levine,Beth Joan Vinkler,Emanuelle Oliveira

Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race relations and sexual intimidation.

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Routledge

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1317475852

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9781317475859

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus,Robert M. Levine,José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy

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The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus,Robert M. Levine,José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy

Carolina Maria de Jesus' book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums, but it also spoke of the author's pride in her blackness, her high moral standards, and her patriotism. More than a million copies of her diary are believed to have been sold worldwide. Yet many Brazilians refused to believe that someone like de Jesus could have written such a diary, with its complicated words (some of them misused) and often lyrical phrasing as she discussed world events. Doubters prefer to believe the book was either written by Audáulio Dantas, the enterprising newspaper reporter who discovered her, or that Dantas rewrote it so substantially that her book is a fraud. With the cooperation of de Jesus' daughter, recent research shows that although Dantas deleted considerable portions of the diary (as well as a second one), every word was de Jesus'. But Dantas did "create" a different Carolina from the woman who coped with her harsh life by putting things down on paper. This book sets the record straight by providing detailed translations of de Jesus' unedited diaries and explains why Brazilian elites were motivated to obscure her true personality and present her as something she was not. It is not only about the writer but about Brazil as recorded by her sarcastic pen. The diary entries in this book span from 1958 to 1966, five years beyond text previously known to exist. They show de Jesus as she was, preserving her Joycean stream-of-consciousness language and her pithy characterizations.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813525705

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9780813525709

Child of the Dark

The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus

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Child of the Dark

The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus

An uneducated Black woman exposes the squalid living conditions and savage human relationships that she experienced in a Brazilian slum.

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187

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Signet Classic

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0451529103

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9780451529107

I'm Going to Have a Little House

The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus

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I'm Going to Have a Little House

The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus

Never before published in English, Carolina's second diary, written in 1960-61, describes her life in the first year after the sudden (and, as it turned out, temporary) fame of Quarto de despejo (see HLAS 25:4741). Translated faithfully into English, evokes the often awkward style adopted by Carolina. Excellent afterword and notes"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803225830

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9780803225831

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus,Robert M. Levine,José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy

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By: Carolina Maria de Jesus,Robert M. Levine,José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy

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Rutgers University Press

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Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria De Jesus,Robert M. Levine,Beth Joan Vinkler,Emanuelle Oliveira

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Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria De Jesus,Robert M. Levine,Beth Joan Vinkler,Emanuelle Oliveira

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1317475844

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Book's by Carolina Maria de Jesus

Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Child of the Dark

Child of the Dark

I'm Going to Have a Little House

I'm Going to Have a Little House

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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