Name/Title
O escravo: RomanceDescription
One of the most important Brazilian writers, Carolina Maria de Jesus left behind, in addition to her autobiographical notebooks, a vast literary production of the most diverse genres, which still remains largely unknown. In O escravo, an unpublished novel written in the 1950s, we get to know the fictional verve of the author of Quarto de despejo and Casa de alvenaria. The protagonists of this story are the cousins Rosa and Renato, who, although in love, end up following different paths, mainly due to pressure from the young man's wealthy family. The text is rescued and established directly from the original manuscript, preserving the author's literary and aesthetic project, and is accompanied by a preface by Denise Carrascosa and an afterword by Fernanda Silva e Sousa. "Carolina invents the proverbial novel as an experimental literary form to reverse the racist colonial gaze that wants to make her a Black Mother, to look at those who look at her and, as the Black Mother of our literature, to create other sound radiations that subvert the Euro-Western language, generating reverberations between Afro-ancestral voices, reaching the abolitionism of Maria Firmina dos Reis, and voices of the Afro-future, such as the slam poets, who continue the challenge." — from the preface by Denise Carrascosa
"Carolina constructs a work that can be anything but a naive and Manichean novel […] and portrays the universe of the 'living room' and its surroundings, marked by hidden interests, excessive ambitions, unrealistic expectations, without, however, subtracting the human and ordinary dimension of the characters." — from the afterword by Fernanda Silva e SousaBook Details
Author
Carolina Maria De Jesus