“Eviction room”: a literary and political-legal complaint about invisibility and exclusion of poor woman and black in brazil

Abstract

The article dealt with the work of Fourth Eviction of Carolina Maria de Jesus aiming to investigate the exclusion of the poor and black woman in the Brazilian society of the 1960s, a situation that remains to this day. The research problem was to identify how the literary work can be perceived as an object of denunciation of the social ills suffered by black and poor women in Brazil. The working hypothesis is that Carolina Maria de Jesus was a woman invisibilized, that is, without place and excluded: neither in poverty, nor after the success of Room of Eviction was recognized as poet or had better material conditions of existence. Through the juridical-literary analysis, through the prism proposed, the reality of determinism and social vulnerability of the class pointed out was clearly revealed, a situation that is not worked through the lens of the Law, addicted by a supposed formal equality that ignores the vicissitudes of real life. The imbrication between the author and her self-referenced work was analyzed, as well as her selective silencing by means of the media and the official discourse, a way to contain it and not to provide her with a place in the literary world. The research was bibliographical, exploratory and the method used was the argumentative.