Name: RIZIA LIMA OLIVEIRA
Publication date: 27/11/2024
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| MARCUS DE MARTINI | Examinador Interno |
| RAFAEL FAVA BELÚZIO | Examinador Interno |
| SANDRA MARA MORAES LIMA | Examinador Externo |
| TÂNIA MARIA PEREIRA SARMENTO-PANTOJA | Examinador Externo |
| WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO | Presidente |
Summary: Thinking about the relationship between childhood and Literature, we propose a consideration of child characters in the work of João Guimarães Rosa, taking as a starting point the boy Guirigó, from the novel Grande sertão: veredas, in order to deepen the study of the social constitution of the child as a product of the backlands environment, marked by misery and violence, considering its physical, psychological and social aspects and its black origin. The analysis of other boys and girls who are characters in the complete works of Guimarães Rosa will be presented, with the aim of tracing, based on similarities and differences, the construction of the boy Guirigó. To this end, Rosa's critical fortune and important texts by authors such as
Antonio Candido, Vania Maria Resende, Willi Bolle were fundamental for the construction of the analyses. The corpus is composed of critical studies that relate Literature and History, with support from theoretical studies such as those by Alfredo Bosi and Giorgio Agamben, aiming to problematize (a) the way in which childhood was conceived for Brazilian society within and outside literature, (b) the place of children in literature and (c) the way in which, in works by the same author, it is possible to find a diversity of childhoods, some of them marked by misery, inequality and violence, while others are surrounded by care and privileges. Theoretical, philosophical and conceptual works on childhood, violence, character composition and the role of the boy in literature, by authors such as Mary Del Priore, Philippe Ariès, Walter Benjamin and Roberto Schwarz were used for discussions about the creation of this role and its aspects. The aim, in addition to surveying the recurrence of childhood in the work of the author from Minas Gerais, is to consider the unusual among childhoods. Therefore, what we seek is what is unusual between Guirigó and other children of João Guimarães Rosa.
