Caleidoscópios de leitura: análise comparatica dos livros Cuore/Coração, Corazón e Alma e Coração

Abstract

This study is limited by the number of questions and concerns about the reading school books of used in Primary Education in the closing decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a period corresponding to the First Republic. The research deals more specificallywith the comparative analysis of the books Cuore, Coração, Corazón and Alma e Coração. It is based on the Cultural History assumptions relating to the Education History when it is based on analyses regarding the concepts of representation, imagination, cultural practices, school culture and school books. The Cuore of Edmundo de Amicis is an emblematic work, published in 1886 in Italy, translated into more than twenty languages, and it had numerous adaptations in several countries and it was the inspiration for several works. Brazil, unlike other countries such as Argentina with its Corazón, did not have a Cuore adaptation work, butinspired works that have become true Brazilian hearts. The book Alma e Coração of Hygino Amanajás is considered one of these hearts. Thus, in this research it was used as a source and object of research the books Cuore, Coração, Corazón and Alma e Coração. When operating with a diverse set of sources, it was sought to know and understand: the place occupied by these books in elementary school, the materiality of these forms, the similarities and differences between the works surveyed. The methodological procedures provided a rich and original production. From this perspective, the elements showed some facets of the researchedtextbooks, bringing out light and shade in aspects of primary education, such as the subjects, practices and devices that were involved in this level of education working dynamics. These elements served as parts for the composition of this mosaic that ultimately led to the building of a reading history frame.