Da gênese dos cadernos às intervenções no Quarto de despejo: o processo editorial para recepção da obra de Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

The testimonial narrative, carried out in the diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus, is a discursive construction that works with gender in its black woman, writer version, and the refusal of her human condition to be evicted in the unequal society that pushed her into misery. It is a dialogue between concepts such as identity, memory, space, language and culture, portrayed in his daily writing, thinking of the binomial individual and social environment as a dynamic process of transformations. Listing the female testimonial narrative as one of the many dilemmas in the representation process, in view of the invisibility of the woman writer, especially the black woman, throughout history, the present work aims to analyze the editorial path of the first work of Carolina Maria de Jesus, Room of Eviction - Diary of a favela, from the moment when journalist Audálio Dantas had access to his writings in notebooks that Carolina collected in the garbage until the book was released. We will discuss the need for a second voice to make another voice heard and analyze the editorial production, proposing a reflection on the intervention process, with the intention of making a text conveniently “suitable for reading”, standardizing the written work. The deletion of terms from the original content, as well as the spelling corrections, distance themselves from the discourse of maintaining the originality of the work produced by a favela that had access to school education for two years and reinforce the role of the journalist and also editor in this process, influencing and directing the diary narrative