A literatura infantil como processo emancipatório na obra Abrindo Caminhos, de Ana Maria Machado

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the literary work Opening pathways (2004), from the writer Ana Maria Machado, cheking how the child is represented. Specifically, the focus of this research is to observe if the work is presented on the non-utilitarian aesthetic speech patterns or pedagogical ones. From the theorical point of view, the work points Opening Paths to a new conception of children’s literature, in other words, it has the delicacy to show the importance of other classic readings that are part of our literary history, both national and universal, through intertextuality. With the birth of modern society between the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries, came the status of childhood. Until then, children were seen as “miniadults” without distinction of cultural signs. Children’s literature lends itself to spread the ideology of that dominant bourgeois class. On this way, this didactic pedagogy is still lasting until the present day. In Brazil, only in the twentieth century, in the 70s, is the “boom” in children’s literature and gets the status of art.