Ensino de literatura infantil e juvenil e diversidade sexual: perspectivas e desafios para a formação de leitores na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This research falls within the field of Literary Studies in an interdisciplinary perspective with Gender Studies and Sexual Diversity and aims to contribute to the investigations developed within the Research Group "Studies on contemporary brazilian narrative" (CNPq/UFT). The overall objective of this research is to analyze the different representations of gender and sexual diversity in child and adolescent literature, so as to show how this difference is represented in the texture of the literary text. Moreover, we seek to explain how to read literary works that address this theme can contribute to the formation of the contemporary readers. It is, therefore, a survey of literature and theoretical nature, by which we undertook an exercise in hermeneutics regarding our selected corpus, consisting of the following narratives: É proibido miar, by Pedro Bandeira; O gato que gostava de cenoura, by Rubem Alves, and O menino que brincava de ser, by Georgina da Costa Martins. To reach our goal and support our theoretical considerations and criticisms we used the following authors: regarding to the teaching of literature and children's and youth literature, we start from considerations of Marisa Lajolo (2000), Nelly Novaes Coelho (2000) and Regina Zilberman (1988 and 2003); for the approach about sexual and gender diversity, we pause especially in studies of António Fernando Cascais (2004), Daniela Auad (2006), Guacira Lopes Louro (2008, 2009), Judith Butler (2010), Jurandir Freire Costa (1992), Michel Foucault (1988) and Kathryn Woodward (2000), among others; ultimately, to support our reflections about the curriculum, initially we start of the concepts of Antonio Flavio Moreira and Tomaz Tadeu da Silva (2011).