Representações indígenas no PNBE 2014

Abstract

This dissertation is a study of indigenous representationsrepresentations in literary works selected for the collection of the National Library of the School Program - PNBE / 2014 (initial years of primary education) of indigenous authorship. For this, the selected works for this dissertation are four: Yaguarãboia - a mulher onça, of Yaguarê Yamã; Com a noite veio o sono, of Lia Minápoty; Karu Taru - O pequeno pajé, by Daniel Munduruku, and A mulher que virou Urutau, by Olívio Jekupe and Maria Kerexu. Considering the 2014 PNBE Notice, this research analyzes the cultural representation of indigenous characters in children's literature, first through the bias of the search for identity, with the theoretical contribution of Stuart Hall (2012), then by the propagation of culture, interpolating their meanings with the theories of Joseph Campbell (1990) and concept of representation. The focus of this research, in accordance with the Brazilian context, is based on readings of the researcher Bonim (2007), for dealing with conflicting issues such as demarcation, misery, suicide and murders that devastate a large part of the country's indigenous population. Thus, this research intends to fulfill the important role of propagating the culture of a people in the construction of its notion of otherness, contributing to the dissemination of these collections purchased and distributed by the Brazilian government to the public schools.