Bitita's diary
Subtitle: the childhood memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus
By: Carolina Maria de Jesus ; editor, Robert M. Levine ; translators, Emanuelle Oliveira and Beth Joan Vinkler.
Contributors: Levine, Robert M.
Series: Latin American realities
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Jesus, Carolina Maria de -- Childhood and youth.; Blacks -- Brazil -- Social conditions.; Poor -- Brazil -- Social life and customs.; Blacks -- Brazil -- Biography.; Brazil -- Rural conditions.; Brazil -- Social life and customs.; Brazil -- Race relations.; Brazil -- Biography.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.