O conhecimento da história local como recurso para o letramento literário: Leocádia – história de uma menina, retrato de uma época

Abstract

Literature and History have always remained very close. Although each one clearly demarcates its field of action, they are interdependent, that is, you can't talk about literature without taking into account the historical moment when a particular work was produced, as well as the time and lifestyle that this work representes. With history is no different, because constant dialogues are done with the literature. This research intends to start from the novel Leocádia, of Elísio Cardoso Guimarães, a book that is indeed the registration of an oral narrative, rescued from the memory of the ancients guanambienses, that portrays the customs of society at the end of the century XIX, in which large landowners were more than bosses of their poor households and ex-slaves: they were their “owners” and their “masters”-. In this atmosphere of power, where the law of the strongest prevailed, began to form the hamlet Beija-flor, currently Guanambi town. That way, we intend to start from what, in some way, is already part of the experiences of these students and show them that literature is alive and is present in people's daily lives. So, from that historical novel, we intend to awaken the taste / pleasure for reading, to then present other books for reading, for the purpose of provide opportunities and provide literary literacy. For this purpose, the research adopted as a theoretical basis studies about reading, literacy and literature in Antoine Compagnon (1999) Antonio Candido (2012), Marisa Lajolo (1993), Regina Zilberman (2008) and Rildo Cosson (2007). The support about history, memory and forgetfulness is ruled in Jacques Le Goff (1990), Paul Ricoeur (2007) and Yves Reuter (1996), while the emergence and importance of the historical novel rest in György Lukács (2011)