Vamos todos/as recontar?: experiências literárias afro-brasileiras em uma escola de Alagoas

Abstract

This Master’s Degree thesis discusses the importance of promoting reading practices on Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture from a short-story literary genre approach found in the following novel: Gosto de África - histórias de lá e daqui, by Joel Rufino dos Santos. The subjects involved in the research are seventh grade, morning shift elementary students at a State school in the municipality of Passo de Camaragibe, in the state of Alagoas; school of which holds 44 students, whose ages range from 13 to 16 years old. In order to carry out this research, what was sought in first place was addressing on the importance of literary literacy, having support on theoretical bases that could corroborate such point and literacy. In addition to that, following right afterwards, there came the importance on the teaching of Afro-Brazilian Literature as a way of denouncement, but also as a way of strengthening one’s ethnic-racial identity and boosting the feeling of belonging. Following the aforementioned steps, narratives on the application of the interventional proposal are initiated aiming at establishing a more critical and inquiring teaching work, improving educational actions of Portuguese language teachers concerning the applicability of the subject here in focus through five short stories in the work of Joel Rufino dos Santos. Such work with literary texts is considered to contribute with better discussions on literary literacy and on Afro-Brazilian culture, just as much as contributing towards a possible reeducation regarding ethnic-racial relations in State schools. In this perspective, along the writing process, a few potencialities and challenges faced on the application of this proposal emerged, raising warn signs, thus, to the need for affirmative actions concerning ethnic-racial issues which may turn the classroom into a space for multiple experiences and for promoting constant respect towards identity investigation and identity assumption of the Afro-Brazilian culture.