A literatura em Libras e o PNLD: uma proposta de unidade didática para o ensino de português escrito como segunda língua para pessoas surdas

Abstract

Brazilian literature is not monolingual; there is also literature by the deaf Brazilian people, which is written in Libras. Thus, this work presents literature in Libras as a cultural artifact of resistance of deaf life and its language, whether in plays, novels, chronicles, short stories, fables, poems, jokes and other forms of literary expression written in Libras by deaf and hearing people. This research is focused on the systematization and analysis of literature in Libras as an effective pedagogical instrument for a praxis that aims to bring deaf students closer to their cultural and linguistic bases, decentralizing the colonial perspective of deaf education. Thus, considering the enrollment of deaf students in inclusive classrooms in most schools in the country, we aim to propose a didactic unit that can serve as a guide for the future development of Portuguese textbooks, considering, especially, the non-distribution of literature in Libras in a Portuguese textbook from the National Book and Teaching Material Program (PNLD), in High School, which was analyzed. This work was based on theoretical frameworks in the areas of Cultural Studies (Hall, 2003); Deaf Studies (Skliar, 2013); literature in Libras (Sutton-spence, 2021); Pedagogy of transgression (hooks, 2017); decoloniality (Quijano, 2014); and Portuguese for deaf people (Fernandes, 2006, 2008 e 2024; Bento et al. 2021). The methodology used in the research was documentary analysis. As a result, the absence of literature in Libras in the analyzed book was found, which highlights the persistence of a hegemonic curricular organization in our school spaces, a scenario that can be transformed through the didactic unit proposed in this work.