[PDF.56du] The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Diálogos Series)

The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Diálogos Series)

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 | #1442040 in Books |  University of New Mexico Press |  1995-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.49 x6.04l,.60 | File type: PDF | 176 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating portrait of an African-Brazilian woman writer|By A Customer|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 soc|From Library Journal|Two historians work jointly to produce a biography of a brave, courageous, and fiercely independent favela dweller from the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Levine, of the University of Miami, and Bom Meihy, of the University of Sao Paulo, chroni

In the dozen years Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977) lived in a São 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 in a decade. <...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Diálogos Series)   |  Robert M. Levine, José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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