"Um Brasil para os brasileiros": o projeto intelectual de Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

Carolina Maria de Jesus was a black Brazilian writer who expressed her intellectual project mainly through literature, which justifies her relevance to national literature. What the text delimits as Carolina Maria de Jesus's intellectual project is the aesthetically engendered discourse of a Brazilian thinker. Weaving a multiform literary writing and crossed by poetic experiments of popular and erudite origin, the thinker constitutes a style marked by lyrical and moralizing diction, structured in defense of a subaltern class, at the same time that she organizes a conception of the world and of Brazil. The dispersion of his work and the intermittency of its reception interfere, even today, with the recognition of a robust system of ideas about the way Brazil should be organized, choosing work, land and education as a path to enter his poetic thought. The construction of the writer's intellectual project, the literary forms that this project assumes, its main themes and the contributions of the thinker, as a public figure, in the Brazilian cultural debate, reveal the project for the country of an intellectual writer dedicated to understanding and contributing to the Brazilian reality.