Autoritarismo e liberdade em "Era uma vez um tirano", de Ana Maria Machado: um convite emancipador ao imaginário infantil.

Abstract

This final paper proposes to analyze the configurations of authoritarianism and freedom in the relationships between characters in the context of the military dictatorship, in the work Era uma vez um Tirano, by Ana Maria Machado. In this book, the characters use creativity as a means of freedom against the oppression on society by a tyrannical character that establishes many prohibitions. In this way, democratic values and freedom of expression are restricted, in the face of creative expression of the city´s inhabitants. This is a study with emphasis on interpretative analysis of a bibliographic nature. In this way the children´s literature lead us to an emancipatory world, where, in this work, the writer Ana Maria Machado uses elements which symbolize a narrative, which the reader can exercise imagination and reflect about the oppose ways of authoritarianism. To support the analysis of this work, were used theoretical fondations from authors such as Aguiar (2021), Andruetto (2012, 2017), Coelho (2006), Fregonezi (2017), Gaspari (2002a, 2002b), Morais (2011), Rosenfeld (2014), Silva and Rocha (2020). Their contributions were essential to the critical and emancipatory of children´s literature. This analysis concludes the configurations of, thinking and creating, classificated in this study, reinforted that the children´s literature improves a construction that offers and emancipatory invitation to the reader, since the the freedom and the defense of different ways of thought and creation are predisposed to social contexts. Therefore, children´s literature guide, us to a revolutionary world, as a form of social freedom.