MÍSTICA DA SOBREVIVÊNCIA E DIREITOS HUMANOS EM CAROLINA DE JESUS

fome, moradia e expressão na construção de uma epistemologia de fronteira

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https://doi.org/10.22409/69bjhs17

Abstract

This article analyzes the mystique of survival in the work of Carolina Maria de Jesus through the articulation of three fundamental elements: hunger, housing, and voice. The analysis is based on the concept of border epistemology, which claims the legitimacy of knowledge produced in colonized peripheries. Carolina, a black woman living in a favela, develops in her work a unique form of knowledge that emerges from direct experience with hunger and precarious housing, transforming these into discursive power and social denunciation. Her writing reveals a "sentipensar" that integrates feeling and thinking, bridging the sacred and the everyday in the struggle for survival. Through her voice, the author questions not only the systematic violations of fundamental human rights but also the superficial inclusion practices that perpetuate the silencing of the subaltern. It concludes that Carolina's work represents a milestone that transcends dominant literary reasoning, constituting a unique epistemology that emerges from the margins to demand full recognition of human dignity and the right to existence in its diversity.

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Author Biographies

  • Dennys Robson Girardi, Centro Universitário Santa Cruz de Curitiba (UNISANTACRUZ)

    Doutor em Direito Empresarial e Cidadania pelo Centro Universitário Curitiba. Docente no Centro Universitário Santa Cruz de Curitiba. https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0787-2695.

  • Viviane Coêlho de Séllos-Knoerr, Centro Universitário Curitiba (UNICURITIBA)

    Pesquisadora e docente do Programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em Direito Empresarial e Cidadania do Centro Universitário Curitiba (Unicuritiba).

  • Carlos Alberto Simões de Tomaz, Centro Universitário Santa Cruz de Curitiba (UNISANTACRUZ)

    Doutor em Direito pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS/RS. Docente do Centro Universitário Santa Cruz de Curitiba. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4616-9138.

  • Thiago Rocha da Cunha, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná – PUCPR

    Doutor em Bioética com Concentração em Saúde Pública pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB), 2014. Pesquisador e docente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Bioética da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná – PUCPR. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6330-2714.

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Published

2026-08-08

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Vol. 28 No. 1 (2026): Confluências, vol. 28, nº 1

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Copyright (c) 2026 Dennys Robson Girardi, Viviane Coêlho de Séllos-Knoerr, Carlos Alberto Simões de Tomaz, Thiago Rocha da Cunha

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MÍSTICA DA SOBREVIVÊNCIA E DIREITOS HUMANOS EM CAROLINA DE JESUS: fome, moradia e expressão na construção de uma epistemologia de fronteira. Confluências | Interdisciplinary Review of Sociology and Law, [S. l.], v. 28, n. 1, p. 60–77, 2026. DOI: 10.22409/69bjhs17. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uff.br/confluencias/article/view/68716. Acesso em: 13 aug. 2026.