Representação dos Personagens afro-brasileiros em diferentes espaços sociais da literatura de Júlio Emilio Braz

Abstract

The works Pretinha Eu? (2018) and Pivete (2018), by Júlio Emilio Braz, are literary productions that reflect the experiences of black children and adolescents in social contexts marked by racial discrimination, bullying, and vulnerability. The work Pretinha Eu? highlights the school environment as a space for identity construction, while Pivete explores the reality of young people involved in crime in favelas. Therefore, this work has as its main objective to analyze the representations of Afro-Brazilian characters in different social spaces in the literature of Júlio Emílio Braz, in the investigation of the works Pretinha Eu? and Pivete. This scientific work proposes to highlight the relevance of black authors in relation to their real experiences, analyzing the way in which Júlio Emílio Braz uses his works to promote reflections on the lives of black children in the 21st century, offering black readers the opportunity to see themselves in the plots reported as a stimulus to awareness about racial prejudice. The study analyzed the importance of narratives that seek to represent the daily lives of black children and adolescents, promoting inclusion and visibility in ethnic-racial issues. In addition, the study seeks to emphasize as a research problem the integration of Afro-Brazilian literature as a pedagogical tool for classroom development, especially in reflections on the different social spaces in which black characters are inserted. This study is based on the discussion based on the following works as a theoretical basis: the book Methodology for teaching children's literature, from 2007, by author Marta Morais da Costa and the book Literature, History and Afro-Brazilian and African Culture, from 2013, by writers Elio Ferreira and Feliciano José Bezerra Filho.