Os indígenas na literatura infantil brasileira

Abstract

The present research proposes to analyze the The Indigenous People in Brazilian Children's Literature, with the objectives to research which are the literary documents that reach the schools through of the National School Library Program, how teachers can use these documents with children in schools, how can children's literature books be presented that bring the Indigenous peoples as protagonists and how children, through children's literature, can get to know and recognize each other in these texts that talk about Indigenous cultures. When trying to understand the importance of literature in the daily lives of children in the 1st to 5th year of the Initial Years of Elementary School, a historical survey of the development of Brazilian children's literature was carried out, in which it was possible to perceive how it has been socially shaped over the years. Through bibliographic research, it was possible to analyze how Indigenous peoples had their images built through time and through the vision of whom the stories are told. From this, the State of Knowledge was made, in order to understand how many and what researches are carried out on the theme of Indigenous peoples in the area of Brazilian children's literature. Finally, in the documentary research, Brazilian children's literature books belonging to the digital collection of the National School Library Program (PNBE) were selected. After that, two categories of analysis were created: Under what perspective In the first category, it was possible to understand the influences of those who write under what they write, are the authors writing? and How are characters placed/constructed within stories? In the first category, it was possible to understand the influences of those who write under what they write, in addition to recognizing the importance of Indigenous writers. In the second category, the relevance and protagonism of the characters within their stories was understood. Finally, it is hoped that this Dissertation can contribute to reflections on the constructions on the (in)visibility of native peoples, how schools still reproduce racism and how children's literature about indigenous peoples can be one of the tools used in education to bring children closer to the subject.