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Robert M. Levine

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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Carolina Maria de Jesus' best-selling book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums; it also spoke of the author's pride in her blackness, her high moral standards, and her patriotism. Since the 1960s, more than a million copies of her diary have been sold worldwide. Yet many Brazilians refused to credit someone like Carolina with authorship of such a diary, with its complicated words (some but not all of them misused) and often lyrical phrasing. Doubters preferred to believe the book was either written by Audalio Dantas, the enterprising newspaper reporter who discovered her, or that Dantas rewrote it so subs… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Meihy, Jose Carlos Sebe Bom
  • ISBN: 978-0-8135-2570-9
  • EAN: 9780813525709
  • Produktnummer: 1399131
  • Verlag: Rutgers Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 404 g
  • Auflage: None
  • Gewicht: 404

Über den Autor


Robert M. Levine is a professor of history and director of Latin American Studies at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. He is the author of Brazilian Legacies and Father of the Poor?: Vargas and His Times. Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy is a professor of history at the University of Sao Paulo and the academic director of the Council of International Educational Exchange Interuniversity Study Program in Brazil.

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