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In this article we present that the beginning of Carolina Maria de Jesus' marketable literary production took place from the publication of the work Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada, in 1960. This study aims to provoke reflections, based on its commemorative edition (1960-2020); as a bibliographic research, with premises of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. We seek to broaden the view of the historical-cultural, economic and social context of those directly involved in the publication, that is, the author, the editor and the publisher; as well as other approaches to the literary context that involved this peripheral and marginalized writer. To this end, we anchored ourselves in the statements of CUNHA (2009); BRAGANÇA (2009); PERPETUAL (2013 and 2020); BARCELLOS (2015); SANTOS (2018); NOAL (2019); LAJOLO (2020) and MEIHY (2020), among others.
Motta et al. (2024) studied this question.