Carolina's point of view: interview with Dalva Maria Soares

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v25.n2.2025.217851

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Dalva Maria Soares, literature , books

Abstract

Interview with the writer and anthropologist from Minas Gerais Dalva Maria Soares, author of three books: Para diminuir a febre de sentir (2020), Do menino (2021), and Me ajuda a olhar! (2023). The objective is to present the writer, who is mainly inspired by Carolina Maria de Jesus, among others, to constitute her choices and her literary legacy. The work she is creating portrays her experiences as a peripheral, black woman and mother of a “boy”, João Pedro, today a young worker, with whom she carries out most of her conversations, in addition to the writers of her choice, with the which produces a dialogical setting for his reflections on life and literature.

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Author Biography

  • Susan de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Realizou estágio de pós-doutorado em Literatura Comparada pelo Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra (2015); doutorada em Literatura (2006), Mestrado em Literatura (2001) e graduação em geografia (1993), todos pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Especialista em Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa pelo Instituto Camões, Lisboa (2009). Professora do Departamento de Língua e Literatura Vernáculas da UFSC, desde 2009. Experiência na área de letras, com ênfase em literatura portuguesa, literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa, estudos pós-coloniais e literatura comparada. Os principais temas de interesse e pesquisa são as literaturas africanas, as culturas africanas em África e na diáspora, as literaturas e culturas das periferias com ênfase no rap e formações culturais do hip hop. Coordena o Núcleo de Estudos de Poéticas Musicais e Vocais. Atualmente é docente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura da UFSC.É autora de diferentes artigos e capítulos com revisão por pares, tais como “Isto aqui é uma guerra: O RAP de protesto no Brasil” (2019) e “Indígenas, imigrantes, pobres: o afropolitanismo no rap crioulo” (2015).  Co-Investigadora Responsável do projeto WomenLit.

References

SOARES, Dalva Maria. Do menino. Editora Venas Abiertas, Belo Horizonte, 2021.

SOARES, Dalva Maria. Me ajuda a olhar. Editora Venas Abiertas, Belo Horizonte, 2023.

SOARES, Dalva Maria. Para diminuir a febre de sentir. Editora Venas Abiertas, 2020.

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Published

2025-04-28

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Vol. 25 No. 2 (2025): Women's Literature: Memories, Peripheries and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Space

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OLIVEIRA, Susan de. Carolina’s point of view: interview with Dalva Maria Soares. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 25, n. 2, p. 268–274, 2025. DOI: 10.11606/va.v25.n2.2025.217851. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/217851.. Acesso em: 8 jan. 2026.