Dialogismo na obra “Casa de alvenaria”, de Carolina Maria de Jesus : o gênero diário nas relações (trans)dialógicas entre literatura, sociedade e educação

Abstract

The work "Casa de Alvenaria" (1961), by Carolina Maria de Jesus, deals with the author's social rise after the success of her previous book, "Quarto de Despejo" (1960). The writer recounts her daily life, exposing the bourgeois hypocrisy of the city of São Paulo and the racial and gender discrimination she suffers for being a black woman from the periphery. The author narrates her day-to-day life through a diary, which became a literary genre after various studies and discussions during the 19th century, with the valuable help of literary critics. This paper will therefore investigate the diary as a literary genre (Lejeune, 1997; Amo, 2019), looking at its historical context as a text that reports (and denounces) social reality. At the same time, the research will address the phenomena of dialogism and polyphony, based on the thinker and philosopher of language Mikhail Bakhtin. These concepts are responsible for involving a plurality of voices and social representations. That said, the central aim of this dissertation is to investigate the constitution of dialogic marks in the work “Casa de Alvenaria”, by Carolina Maria de Jesus, considering the characteristics of the diary genre in the relations between literature, society and education. In addition, it will also problematize the invisibility of the black female voice in elementary school classrooms, coming up with pedagogical ideas that strengthen feminist, anti-racist and dialogical literary education (Brasil, 2003; Freire, 1989, 2001, 2018; Hooks, 2017, 2019; Gomes, 2011, 2014; Carneiro, 2011, 2019; Ribeiro, 2018; Pinheiro, 2023). To do this, the bibliographical research method was used, following the stages of Tozoni-Reis (2009): research design, bibliographical review, data collection, data organization, data analysis and interpretation and final writing. Therefore, the results of this dissertation highlight that Carolina Maria de Jesus saw the diary as an opportunity to present real and direct accounts due to the polyphonic and dialogic characteristics of the genre.