O NOSSO MUNDO É A MARGEM:

O RELATO ECOLÓGICO DE CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS NO LIVRO QUARTO DE DESPEJO: DIÁRIO DE UMA FAVELADA

Abstract

Liberal-bourgeois modernity has instituted a logic that transforms everything into waste: bodies, territories, cultures, and existences, turning them into surplus. Beyond the material dimension of garbage, this mechanism produces systematic erasures that fall primarily on racialized and marginalized populations. In this context, this article aims to analyze how the logic of disposal manifests itself in the literary work Child of Dark, taking environmental racism as an analytical perspective, articulated through an understanding of writing ecology. The Black female voice, poverty, and living in the slums, together with discussions about environmental justice, will guide the analysis proposed in this work, based on a discourse that presents lives marked by scarcity, hunger, and environmental degradation, thereby creating a counter-hegemonic knowledge about the ecological crisis. This study hypothesizes that Carolinian literary production challenges environmental politics and traditional literary writing through a dissident narrative that exposes an ecological crisis, which aligns with racial and social inequalities, highlighting the social inequality resulting from a racialized capitalist system.