The corpus of this research is the daily book Quarto de despejo (2021), by Carolina
Maria de Jesus, published in 1960 and aims to analyze how the work Quarto de
despejo (2021), by Carolina Maria de Jesus, is constituted as a space for
problematization of Brazilian society in the 1960s. In this article, it is observed how the
black female authorial voice is an important channel of denunciation and sociocultural
reflections around people and life in the periphery.In addition to this aspect, the
importance of Carolina Maria de Jesus for Brazilian literary studies with gender and
intersectionality themes is also discussed. This research is theoretically based on the
authors Bell Hooks, Conceição Evaristo, Fabiana Moraes, Lélia Gonzales and Djamila
Ribeiro. When published, Quarto de despejo suffered resistance from literary critics
who did not consider it to have literary value, perhaps because it was a work set in the
favela, written by a black woman, self-taught, single mother, poor and resident of the
favela of Canindé-SP. In her diary, her sharp political vision, criticisms of racial
prejudice, awareness of the role of women in society and reflections on the lack of
opportunities for poor and slum dwellers can be seen. Quarto de despejo, written in
1955, portrays the reality of many Brazilians still in the year 2022.
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