Arquivar E Reinventar A Vida: Diários E Cartas Em Carolina Maria De Jesus E Françoise Ega

Abstract

This work is the result of part of a research that seeks to study the ways in which individuals record and archive their lives, making them immortal, carried out through the Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program - PIBIC. There are several ways to store experiences: photographs, boxes, drawers, etc. And there are also records made in diaries and letters, called self-writing, the topic of interest in this study. For this analysis, the works will be taken as objects, Quarto de eviction: diary of a favelada dweller by Carolina Maria de Jesus and Letters to a black woman: antillean narrative by Françoise Ega. These works have in common, in addition to black women writers, the way they recorded their daily struggles: Carolina wrote diaries, Françoise, letters. Located in the documentary and bibliographic field, through a qualitative and exploratory approach, it aims to analyze the subjectivity of human behavior, referring to self-archiving. The archives, diaries and letters, made by Carolina (2007) and Françoise (2021), went beyond the boundaries of literature, they are much more than a record of everyday life, they are criticisms and denunciations of a society that treats people with disregard and cruelty. a good portion of humanity: Carolina, exposed the harsh reality, of herself and of the people who live on the margins of society, the favela residents; Françoise, showed with the authority of a sister of color, the racism and exploitation suffered by poor and black women in the 20th century. These records made these women visible, managing to insert themselves into a literate logic, often responsible for symbolic exclusions, mainly, by authors, women and black. “Archiving and reinventing life” highlights how the taste for reading, writing and especially recording everyday experiences can give new meaning to an individual’s daily struggles, leading them to reinvent themselves and escape from a situation of anonymity and invisibility.