A representação do negro na literatura infantojuvenil de Ana Maria Machado

Abstract

It is noticeable in recent years, a deconstruction trend stereotypes about blacks in Brazilian children's literature, which is ratified when we observe how contemporary narratives give opportunity the characters talk about themselves and the readers hear the voices of margins. This trend reflects a movement of invocation to the aforementioned literary genre, inaugurated in Brazil by Monteiro Lobato, in the 1920s, and followed by other authors such as Ana Maria Machado, which has in its production fictional one reframing of the black image, breaking the molds of tradition and deconstructing stereotypes and prejudices historically constructed. The characters analyzed here through their physical and psychological constructs allows us to reflect about racism, masked by the "myth of racial democracy" in our country, but the evocation of miscegenation is refuted in practice, given the persistence of that conventionally called "Brazilian racism". From the foregoing, it becomes clear that the proposal here undertaken aims to analyze the deconstruction of stereotypes about the black in the work of Ana Maria Machado, evidencing the presence of an innovative style of speech, that values ethnic and racial characteristics of black. Therefore we analyze the characters that make up the works: Do outro lado tem segredos, Menina Bonita do Laço de Fita, Do outro mundo, O mistério da ilha: Mandingas da ilha Quilomba, O canto da praça and other works that follow the same line. This work therefore aims to contribute, through reflections and counterpoints with the deconstruction of stereotypes that affect the black population in the literary context, which favors an identity self-acceptance from childhood. boosted by a process of appreciation of the phenotypic characteristics of the black and recall the culture of Africanity. For this, theoretically we make use of the most renowned authors who are dedicated to research line proposed here such as Rosemberg (1979 and 1985); Abramovich (1983 and 2004); Gouvêa (2005); Palo e Oliveira (2011) and Jovino(2006) among others.