Bitita's diary

By Carolina Maria de Jesus

Subjects: Erlebnisbericht, Biography, Brazil, biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Women, brazil, Manners and customs, HISTORY, Childhood and youth, Tagebuch, Rural conditions, Black people, Historical, Social life and customs, Poor, brazil, Armut, Social conditions, Blacks, Race relations, Poor, Sao paulo (brazil)

Description: "Carolina (1915-77), whose childhood nickname was Bitita, evokes the hardships of her early life in 1920s-30s rural Minas Gerais. Volume was written in 1970s and posthumously published, first in French in 1982 and finally in Portuguese in 1986. This very careful translation aims to retain inconsistencies and nonstandard grammar of the original. Valuable introduction and afterword by Levine"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.