Ceilândia, City in Flower and Dumping Room: Diary of a Slum - constitution/desconstitution of the subject in the urban space

Abstract

The use of literature in this paper makes explicit the relation between art and history, since it can be constituted in a place whose production enables the insertion on the historical thought. In this way, the literary art taken as a constructor of social world images enables historical observations about the city under different views. With the aid of the theoretical-methodological instruments of history, “Ceilândia, Cidade em Flor” (Manoel Raimundo) and “Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada” (Carolina Maria de Jesus) will be studied in the perspective of literature and considered “inspiration source” for the poetic of the production of historiographic knowledge.