Veredas do protagonismo negro nas produções literárias para a infância: resistências e re-existências

Abstract

In this paper, we propose to discuss the literary production for children, having as a prism the black protagonism. The choice for this object was based on the understanding that literary discourse reproduces some characteristics of the society in which it was constituted, and a critical and sensitive look at literary works aimed at children is essential. Literature, a human experience that enhances different ways of being and understanding the world, is a form of resistance to broaden cultural and identity perceptions. This is a research with a qualitative approach, whose methodology is document analysis. The objective is to map the literary collection of a public school in Belo Horizonte, having as a focus the ethnic-racial focus, building categories to enable the analysis of the works and build paths for the production of resistance through the mediation of literary works to the childhood. For that, we mostly adopted a black epistemology, having as main theoretical sources: Adichie (2019), Araújo (2018), Almeida (2018), Debus (2017), Kilomba (2019), Mayer and Gomes (2021) among others. As a result, two major categories stand out in which the analyzed works are circumscribed, configuring themselves as fruitful paths for the education of ethnic-racial relations.