Um currículo de contos de fadas da diferença: normas de gênero e produções subversivas por meio de corpos de crianças-meninas

Abstract

In this article we seek to show the creation of other possible genres through Fairy Tales. Although historically such tales have been created based on models of femininity and masculinity that reiterate the prevailing gender norms, this work analyzes six contemporary Fairy Tales books that make up a cultural curriculum in which different femininities are constructed. Through these new tales, there is a significant shift: if, for some time, Fairy Tales have taught an adult-centric and dichotomous logic, there is, in these contemporary narratives, a quest to highlight children's protagonism, blur the binarisms and make room for difference. The objective of the articleis, then, to show that different techniques produce a performative force that inventively builds other femininities, with subversive behaviors through the bodies of child-girls. We argue that in this cultural curriculum this performative force produces child-girl subject positions that contests standards of beauty, child-girl-brave-and-brave-cunning-dangerous-fearless and child-girl-who-saves-herself. Thus, resistance in this curriculum teaches performances, based on the conception that literature, as an expression of art, has the potential to extrapolate the power-knowledge relations engendered, also establishing itself as a space for transgression and proliferation of difference.