Carolina Maria de Jesus (14 March 1914[1] – 13 February 1977) was a Brazilian outskirts memorialist who lived most of her life as a slum-dweller. She is best known for her diary, published in August 1960 as Quarto de Despejo (lit. Junk Room, English title Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus) after attracting the attention of a Brazilian journalist, which became a bestseller and won international acclaim. The work remains the only document published in English by a Brazilian slum-dweller of that period. De Jesus spent a significant part of her life in the Canindé [pt] favela in North São Paulo, supporting herself and three children as a scrap collector.
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Social conditions, Poor, Social life and customs, Blacks, Biography, Black people, Diaries, Poor, brazil, Brazil, social life and customs, Childhood and youth, City and town life, Race relations, Rural conditions, Blacks, brazil, Brazil, biography, Sao paulo (brazil), Black Women, Blacks, social conditions, Brazil, race relations, History, Aphorisms and apothegms, Armut, Autobiography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BrazilPlaces
Brazil, São Paulo (Brazil), São Paulo, Brésil, Social life and customs, São Paulo (Brazil : State)People
Carolina Maria de JesusID Numbers
- OLID: OL217145A
- ISNI: 0000000083875208
- Library of Congress Names: n83196582
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): LIGV126107
- VIAF: 61667426
- Wikidata: Q440240
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q440240
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- Carolina Maria De Jesus
- Carolina Maria Jesus
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