Carolina Maria de Jesus (1915–1977)
Forfatter af Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
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Image credit: Caarolina Maria de Jesus
Værker af Carolina Maria de Jesus
Bitita's Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Latin American Realities) (1984) 13 eksemplarer
Casa de alvenaria – Volume 1: Osasco (Cadernos de Carolina) (Portuguese Edition) (2021) 10 eksemplarer
I'm Going to Have a Little House: The Second Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus (Engendering Latin America) (1997) 4 eksemplarer
Casa de alvenaria – Volume 2: Santana (Cadernos de Carolina) (Portuguese Edition) (2021) 3 eksemplarer
XI Concurso de Contos Petros 1 eksemplar
COPLUK 1 eksemplar
Das Haus aus Stein 1 eksemplar
La favela 1 eksemplar
Çöplük 1 eksemplar
Meu sonho é escrever 1 eksemplar
A Casa de Alvenaria 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Bidragyder — 159 eksemplarer
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1915
- Dødsdag
- 1977
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Brazil
- Bopæl
- São Paulo, Brazil
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- 20
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- 3
- Medlemmer
- 605
- Popularitet
- #41,547
- Vurdering
- 4.1
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- 9
- ISBN
- 35
- Sprog
- 4
De Jesus was a black woman living in a Brazilian slum in the late 1950s, and a single mom of three. She writes about slum life in her diary; she had only a second-grade formal education, but that was enough to develop a love for reading and writing.
It was obviously sad to read about such extreme poverty, and discouraging to realize that after fifty-some years, slum life is the same as it's always been, no matter where the slum is located. The events and attitudes de Jesus recounted were strikingly similar to those described in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" about a slum in Mumbai in more recent years.
There is some profanity and the author references sex fairly often, as she reports on the goings-on in the favela (slum), and sadly, there's a lot of prostitution and abuse.
The entries all run together, so it's frustrating to find a good stopping place. It would have been nice to have a page break for each month.… (mere)