A Melancolia na escrita de Carolina Maria de Jesus, em quarto de despejo

Abstract

This study analyzes the work Quarto de Despejo, by Carolina Maria de Jesus Maria de Jesus, based on the articulation between melancholy and writing. The author transforms the pain of social exclusion into poetic and political language, revealing writing as a space of subjectivation and resistance. The relevance of this research lies in expanding the debate on literary forms produced by historically marginalized subjects and the ways in which these productions challenge the canons of traditional literature. Hunger, poverty, and loneliness emerge as recurring images of melancholy, re-signified by Carolina Maria de Jesus as social critique. Methodologically, this study adopts a qualitative approach, based on bibliographic research, using theoretical works that discuss melancholy from psychoanalytic, aesthetic, and philosophical perspectives, as well as literary analyses of the author's work. The research is grounded in authors such as Ginzburg (2012), Kristeva (2012), Benjamin (1985), Bosi (2002), Kehl (2009), and Freud (1976). Therefore, the central objective of this study is to investigate how melancholy is constructed in the writing of Quarto de Despejo, demonstrating that the word, in the work, transcends denunciation and becomes an instrument for the symbolic elaboration of subjectivity.