The poetics of hunger and the writing of precarity: about Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

In this text we state that black women's writing, highlighting Carolina Maria de Jesus, invest in the indexation of forms of literary representation which, due to its aesthetic diction, engender specific forms of world representation. Insofar as these writings are forged, potent concepts to analyze its literary writing process emerge. We call attention to the biographical dimension as an aesthetic value in Carolina Maria de Jesus's literature based on the concepts of poetics of hunger and writing of precarity presented here.