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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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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

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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The Way of Salvation, Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Translated from Italian

By: Alfonso Maria De Liguori,James Jones

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The Way of Salvation, Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Translated from Italian

By: Alfonso Maria De Liguori,James Jones

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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402

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385150442

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9783385150447

The Didache

Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity

By: Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt,Huub Van de Sandt,David Flusser

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The Didache

Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity

By: Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt,Huub Van de Sandt,David Flusser

The early Christian manual for baptismal catechesis focuses on the nascent Christian community and early Judaism.

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464

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Fortress Press

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1451409834

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9781451409833

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

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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Under the Feet of Jesus

By: Helena Maria Viramontes

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Under the Feet of Jesus

By: Helena Maria Viramontes

A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields. “Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist vein of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.”—Publishers Weekly At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes’ prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feet of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction. Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature Selected as the Univesity of Oregon's 2019 Common Reading book

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Penguin

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0452273870

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9780452273870

Book's by 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

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Way of Salvation, Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Translated from Italian

The Way of Salvation, Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Translated from Italian

The Didache

The Didache

Child of the Dark

Child of the Dark

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

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

Under the Feet of Jesus

Under the Feet of Jesus

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