Bitita's Diary: the Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Name: Bitita's Diary: the Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus
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ISBN: 9780765602121

ISBN-10: 0765602121

ISBN-13: 9780765602121

Edition: 1998

Authors: Robert M. Levine, Emanuelle Oliveira, Beth Joan Vinkler, Carolina Maria De Jesus, Beth J. Vinkler

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Carolina Maria de Jesus (1915-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo in search of work and a better life. She was self-taught and enjoyed a degree of celebrity after the publication in 1960 of her diary under the title, Quarto de Despejo (The Garbage Room), which became the best selling book in Brazilian history. Translated into more than a dozen languages, it sold over 300,000 copies in English hardcover alone, as Child of the Dark. Bitita's Diary, drafted just prior to her death, covers her early life in the 1920s and 1930s. Originally published in French as Journal de Bitita and appearing…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Childhood


The Godmothers


The Holiday


Being Poor


A Little History


The Blacks


My Family


The City


My Son-in-Law


Grandfather's Death


School


The Farm


I Return to the City


The Domestic


Illness


The Revolution


The Rules of Hospitality


Culture


The Safe


The Medium


The Mistress


Being a Cook