A experiência limite dos refugos que falam

Abstract

The present article builds upon Gayatri Spivak's main question about the (im) possibility of subaltern's speech. The memorialism is pointed as a strategy for those "human wastes", which has the challenge of deconstructing a preconceived image of futility and disgust. By writing a text under the aegis of their own name, the subalterns are actually claiming for respect and recognition - they also have a life story that deserves to be told and heard. In this sense, Quarto de Despejo, by Carolina Maria de Jesus, is an example. This book, written as diary, brings the daily life of this woman who creates her three children alone in a slum in São Paulo, surviving through the collection of papers and ali sorts of garbage resold as scrap. In conducting this debate, we consider the concept of slum, as well as the role of the mediator and the "limit-experience", proposed by Blanchot.