Racism in literary short stories: a reading proposal for schools
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Reading; Literary text; Teaching.Abstract
This article adresses the student-reading relationship, about reading practice (mainly the literary one), in Portuguese classes. The choice of the topic for this activity was based on “racism”, in order to stimulate socio-historical knowledge through two works by Monteiro Lobato: the short story “Negrinha” and an excerpt from the work “Peter Pan”, one of the adventures in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, and contemporary reflections through the short story “O tapete voador” by Cristiane Sobral, which were discussed with a final year class in a public school in Cuiabá-MT. In this instable world, with borders of all forms for the most fragile ones, it is important to bring reflections, remember paths and emphasize the need for mediation in reading, mainly in classrooms. The problem to be faced is how to lead students to read a literary text, that arouses reflections on racism, racial prejudice and racial discrimination. The objective of this study is to present a reading proposal, under the guidance of Literary Literacy, which gives students support to read a text, specifically in the genre short story, in qualitative research, with a methodology based on workshops, for the expansion of collective meanings, a critical and dialectical space. Based on Cosson (2006) and other theorists who discuss teaching, reading and literature – the focus of this study –, it is expected that this reading proposal can contribute to teachers who want to use more reading strategies to make the reader-text relationship more profound and meaningful, especially with the literary text.
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