The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus
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In the dozen years Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977) lived in a S o Paulo, Brazil, shanty slum, she survived by rummaging for junk. She also kept a diary of her abject poverty. Black, illegitimate, and poor, she suddenly became at age forty-six Brazil's best-selling author when a book drawn from her diaries appeared in 1960. An English translation, Child of the Dark, was published in 1962 and sold over 300,000 copies in the United States...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0826316484
ISBN13:9780826316486
Release Date:September 1995
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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Fascinating portrait of an African-Brazilian woman writer
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This is a marvelous study not only of a poignant African-Brazilian woman persecuted for daring to state her beliefs, but one that reveals the different ways that American (Levine) and Brazilian (Meihy) scholars perceive the problems of race in society. A must read for anyone interested in Latin American society or the history of women or of blacks in the hemisphere.
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