A representatividade negra na literatura brasileira infanto-juvenil: reflexões e apontamentos

Abstract

This Course Completion Work - TCC, aims to carry out a critical reflection about the lack of black representation in the literary productions of the time, initially making a passage through the historical trajectory of Children's Literature, since its origin in the world and his relationship with the child/childhood of the time, until his arrival in Brazil, when the texts from Portugal were translated, initially, in a purely pedagogical manner for the children of the Brazilian elite, having Monteiro as one of their main children's authors Lobato. In this study, the methodological direction used will be of a bibliographical nature, consisting of surveying research on websites, articles, theses, conference proceedings, among others. This monograph also discusses how black people were and have been represented in Brazilian literary works aimed at children after slavery in Brazil. Contributions by Silva and Bertoletti (2017), Lajolo and Zilberman (2007), Luz (2018), Freitas (2014), Silva and Silva (2011), Castilho (2004), Bispo (2020), among other authors. In summary, we realize that literature, as a reflection of society, has excluded and/or treated black people differently over many years in the history of Brazil. Therefore, it is necessary that education, as one of the means of correspondence between literature and children through everyday school life, seek to break with silencing, stereotypes and racial prejudices in relation to blacks, in order to promote the construction of an anti-racist education, allowing children to form their racial identity.