A literatura infantil brasileira contemporânea: um exercício historiográfico e crítico em torno do Prêmio Jabuti

Abstract

When the subject is children's literature, its association with issues of pedagogical aspects has become common, a fact that is largely due to the age of the readers for whom this literature is intended. However, when considering the book as a product for which the existence of a profitable market is necessary, there are elements that affect the formation of the literary reader in their interaction with school. By understanding the possibility of highlighting circumstances promoted by the broad relationship between children's literature, the market and teaching, some works aimed at children that have received the Jabuti Prize between the years 1980 and 2015. Will be analyzed developed by Cademartori (2010), Thompson (2013) and Lajolo (2014), among others, with the aim of taking a closer look at this process, observing the assertion that there is a strong marketing role that significantly interferes with the reader's education promoted by formal educational institutions. In the work in question, therefore, a theoretical basis will be developed that explores the concept of childhood and its relationship with reading throughout history. The impact caused by the printing press in its emergence will also be analyzed, presenting an analysis proposal that values literature as a trainer of critical individuals who are engaged in society. However, we will take as a principle the premise that it is in the act of reading and writing that subjects can emancipate themselves, reconfiguring the spaces on the margins, tensioning the impositions that are conveyed in societies in which capitalism transforms human beings into passive consumers. This is the crucial point that is defined as the core of the discussions undertaken in the work presented.