"Todo diário é um quartinho": uma leitura de Carolayne, Carolina e as histórias do diário da menina (2021), de Simone Mota.

Abstract

Children‟s literature is a difficult category to define within literary studies. This, however, does not restrict the variety of texts included under this heading, even more so in the contemporary scenario, marked by the emergence of authorship, themes and materialities of children's books. With such a production horizon in mind, this article proposes an analytical-interpretive reading of the book Carolayne, Carolina e as histórias do diário da menina (2021), by Simone Mota, in which it seeks to highlight the structural and diegetic devices that shape the book, considering, for this, the material treatment of the object, the elaboration of a child teller and the intertextual and intergender dialogues, mainly from the recovery of the diary writings of Carolina Maria de Jesus. In Mota's narrative, it is clear how these elements converge in order to function as potential attractions for the reader, rubbing against the stigmatized view that still affects this set of texts. Furthermore, by recovering the writing and figure of the author of Quarto de despejo [1960], the book resizes Carolina's place in the imagination of the developing reader and in Brazilian cultural memory.