DA MENINA À MULHER: O PROCESSO DE AFIRMAÇÃO RACIAL NA OBRA A COR DA TERNURA, DE GENI GUIMARÃES

Abstract

This work aims to further analyze the process of the formation of the black identity presented in the book for afro-Brazilian literature A cor da ternura (1998), from the afro-brazilian writer Geni Guimarães. We intend to understand the importance of representativeness on the literatures, mainly, for black children and for the least-favored classes. In this context, we believe that the literary teaching should come from, in a first moment, from texts that reflect realities close to the ones lived by the students. From this, it is objected to understand how the teaching of literature, by a black representativeness bias, contributes to the integral formation of the students. As theoretical support of our research, we will utilize the following authors: National Curricular Guidelines to the ethnic-racial Education and Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture Education, bell hooks (2013), Neuza Santos Souza (2019), Mirian Cristina dos Santos (2018), Fernanda Miranda (2019) and others. In this way, methodologically, the work, based in a bibliographical research, is qualitative, and it’ll be analyzed texts of literary criticism, texts from theoreticians that contribute to the teaching of literature, besides the studies that aim to understand the process of affirmation of black identity. We believe that the results found during the research will reassure our perspective that the teaching of literature contributes directly to the formation of critical sense, citizen, humanization, as well as the ethnic-racial acceptance of black children.