Name: FABIANA MONNERAT DE MELO

Publication date: 18/12/2020
Advisor:

Name	Role
MARIA AMÉLIA DALVI SALGUEIRO	Advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
ADRIANA PIN	External Alternate *
ANDRÉA ANTOLINI GRIJÓ	External Examiner *
ARLENE BATISTA DA SILVA	Internal Alternate *
MARIA AMÉLIA DALVI SALGUEIRO	Advisor *
RAFAELA SCARDINO LIMA PIZZOL	Internal Examiner *

Summary: It is related to a comprehensive study of the contemporary controversies (during
the simultaneous and subsequent period of the Judicial-Mediatic-Parliamentary
strike of 2016, in Brazil) involving infantile literature; the outline focuses
particularly in controversies emerging and/or fed by social media whose targets
were the following fiction titles O menino que espiava pra dentro, from Ana Maria
Machado, and “A triste história de Eredegalda”, recount from José Mauro Brant.
Therefore, the main question to be answered is: “what is the underlying logic to
the contemporary phenomena of repeatedly attacking in social media, aiming
censorship and banning fictional production for childhood, presented as a care
and protection cover for children?” Controversies involving some literary works
from the research’s outline are inquired mainly from a theoretic-methodological
psychanalytic reference (coming from Françoise Dolto and Sigmund Freud’s
works), in correlation with studies about the circulation of speeches (paying
particular attention to banishing and censorship contemporary phenomena in
social media (coming from Deonísio da Silca, Eni Orlandi, as well as Ana Maria
Machado). There are also aligned notions pertaining to the literary field
(particularly focused on issues of literary reading and the formation of the literary
reader) drawn from authors such as Ana Maria Machado, Antonio Candido, Maria
Amelia Dalvi, Marisa Lajolo and Regina Zilberman. The study’s conclusions point
out that attacks on literary works in contemporary times reach childhood, as
adults who interdict or want to interdict the literary do not consider that, if there is
suffering, it should be heard; they do not consider that literary reading requires
reflection and also requires, on the part of the adult, contact with the child he once
was. Under censorship and silencing, there is a loss of fruitful and important
debates on the themes that are inherent to the human - there is, therefore,
emptiness, rupture, devastation of the symbolic and significant slips, metaphors,
playfulness and subjective affective food are lacking. From the point of view of
the phenomenon of social networks, the conclusions indicate that social ties
become entangled in rapidity, and the subjects, moved by the consumption
experience and the number of available objects, are easily captured by the logic
of the networks and the information they provide: the comments appear in a flurry,
with little reflective and very repetitive terms - for this very reason, they ask for
the interdiction of reading literary works considered unsuitable for childhood - but
end up indicating, by default, that these works disturbed worldviews who intended
to silence fundamental questions for humanity in us: the fact that controversies
exist is a testament to the fact that they touched on topics “forgotten” by society,
but which nevertheless do not disappear.
Keywords: Children’s literature. Censorship. Social networks. Psychoanalysis.
Reading mediation.

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