Letramentos e encantamentos: uma experiência com a literatura infantil afro- brasileira

Abstract

This research aims to understand the discourses and meanings that children construct about the literacies of storytelling circles of Afro-Brazilian children's literature. Seeking to understand how literature can raise critical racial, re-existence and literary literacy. This study took place in a community school and promoted storytelling circles of different works of Afro-Brazilian children's literature for a first-year basic education class. The methodologies used are content analysis, as it understands that the elements of everyday life present in the text function as language and emit a message. In addition to critical interpretation of racial relations to explore the possibilities of racial issues through literature and storytelling to enable the dialogue of children's prior knowledge about 1.ethnic issues with the stories narrated. Through storytelling, children were encouraged to write their own stories. Afro-Brazilian literature is one of the possibilities to write a new history and rescue the culture and identity of black people. Afro- Brazilian children's literature provides children with racial, literary, re-existence literacy, instrumentalizing children to face racism, not reproduce it, and transform the corrupted view of black subjects, restoring their dignity tarnished by racism. Afro- Brazilian literature is one of the possibilities to write a new history and rescue the culture and identity of black people, children wrote their works and despite the limitations they presented, it is an initial step for them to place themselves as authors of their own stories, resisting the oppressive colonizing dictates. The enchantment arising from this literature and literacies dispels the racist clouds that underlie children's views on the condition of blackness, allowing them to begin to see the beauty that they were previously unable to see in themselves as black people or in their peers, being able to see the rainbow of plurality, rhythms, colors and loves that constitute society.