O protagonismo negro nos cordéis de Jarid Arraes: uma proposta de letramento literário para a educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

Brazilian literature, in general, has always presented the figure of The Black in a marginalized and stereotyped way, denying black people the protagonist position of their own narratives. Thus, this research paper arises from the need to see the black man not only as an object of observation but also as the subject of discourse and his identity. Furthermore, it proposes a didactic intervention with the aim of promoting the student`s insertion in the literary space through texts that are close to his reality. For this reason, Cordel literature seems to be the literary text able to bridge the gap between the student and literature, going through issues inherent to the researched group of students, which is mostly made up of black students, the ones from the ghetto and socially seen as marginalized students, especially when it comes to the audience of Youth and Adult Education (EJA), which is the target audience of this research. For this purpose, the book called Heroínas negras brasileiras em 15 cordéis, by Jarid Arraes, will guide this research. This work allows the student to have contact with a text written by a black woman who spotlights the importance of black personalities from the History of Brazil, arts and literature. Considering the patriarchal and racist context in which we live in, it is urgent to think about teaching proposals that remove The Black from his invisibility place, giving voice to those who were relegated to oblivion and suffer the deletion of his culture until today. Promoting literary literacy from this ethnic-racial perspective, using a regional and popular text with an accessible language and a playful structure, making students recognize themselves and feel represented in that literature and allowing other students to understand the importance of changing what has always been the spotlight in literary texts emerge as essential goals of this research paper.