THE SELF-NARRATIVE IN THE DIARY BOOKS OF CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS: discoursivy analyses in Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room) and Casa de Alvenaria (I'm Going to Have a Little House)
Discourse Analysis; Carolina Maria de Jesus; I’m Going to Have a Little House; The Trash Room; Self-narrative.
This paper intent to analyze, discursively, the books Quarto de Despejo (2000 [1960]) (The Trash Room) and Casa de Alvenaria (1961) (I’m Going to Have a Little House) from Carolina Maria de Jesus, searching for identify, through excerpts, effects of meaning on "subalternity" and "hope" that emanate from these diaries, considering the condition of production of these publications. Linked to life narratives, this study aimed to investigate how the Carolinian discursive subject discourses, mainly, about himself, engendering the narration of the analyzed material. The French Discourse Analysis was chosen, based on the theoretical-methodological framework of Michel Pêcheux (2014; 2015), and Orlandi (2015), considering, in this study, the relationship of the subject with language, history and ideology. This is a basic, bibliographical research with an exploratory orientation. To compose the analyses of this corpus, excerpts were selected from Quarto de Despejo (2000 [1960]) (The Trash Room) and Casa de Alvenaria (1961) (I’m Going to Have a Little House) to understand how subalternity and hope are present in discourses of Carolina and how this serves as basis for the subject-narrator to construct the narration. The analyses indicated that the discourses present in this corpus could be inserted within the conception of "subalternity" and "hope", that they are not linked to their literariness, but come from different positions assumed, these taken according to their discursive formations, depending on factors external to the language.