(Obs)cena e espetáculo em Carolina Maria de Jesus: reflexões a partir de seus manuscritos inéditos

ABSTRACT

This article examines unpublished manuscripts of Carolina Maria de Jesus produced between 1958 and 1962 that depict emerging conflicts regarding her professionalization as an “author” in the publishing project set in motion by her best-seller. It is a struggle between the lapidary outlook of a “slum dweller” - as a first-person witness and “reporter” - and her prismatic desire for creative writing, in many ways “detached” from her more immediated referents. This investigation seeks to characterize (a) post-modernity/contemporaneity appertaining to peripheral subjectivities in the intersections of gender, race, and class, in view of the disarticulation of time and of linear narratives (Agamben, 2009); (b) the exacerbation of the scopic exercise (Santiago, 2002); and (c) the overall effects of this intensification as translated by phantasmatic subjectivities in a rapid process of alienation, reification, and spectacularization (Lukács, 2003).

KEYWORDS:
Carolina Maria de Jesus; Manuscripts; Contemporaneity; Postmodernity; Contemporary subjectivities; Subaltern studies