Mulheres negras que narram a luta pela liberdade individual e/ou coletiva: uma leitura das obras Quarto de Despejo da brasileira Carolina Maria de Jesus e Diário de um exílio sem regresso da moçambicana Deolinda Rodrigues

Abstract

This article intends to analyze the account of two black women who appropriated writing to narrate their stories, while narrating the history of the nation of each one of them. The authors, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Deolinda Rodrigues, the first Brazilian and the second Angolan, write their stories in diaries. We investigate, literarily, how, in Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada, first edition in 1960, Carolina Maria de Jesus presents a writing of herself that is also an account of the daily struggle of the poor, blacks and women in Brazil for existence and subsistence . In the book of Deolinda Rodrigues, Diário de um exilio sem regresso, we follow the story of the struggle for independence for the Angolan nation by a black woman. In this comparative article, we intend to show the distances and approximations of the narrative strategies of these two black women.