Decolonizing the teaching of literature at school: adoption of critical racial literacy practices based on short stories by black Brazilian authors
Literary Literacy. Black Women's Literature. Decoloniality. Critical Racial Literacy.
Believing that problematizing education, in Freire's understanding, is revolutionary, this work presents a decolonial proposal, that is, an epistemological option that seeks to recognize, respect and value the diverse knowledge, peoples and cultures and their respective literatures, against the essentialist ideas and universal standards pillars of neoliberalism. Since literature is an instrument for constructing the social imaginary, the reading of black Brazilian authors by students at school contributes to humanizing bodies, building concrete subjectivities, promoting cognitive justice. This work aims to seek to reflect on the decolonization of literature teaching at school by adopting critical racial literacy practices through the narratives of black Brazilian authors. qualitative action research will be carried out in a 9th grade class in a school located on the north coast of Alagoas. Because, we believe, that in order to build a democratic and fair society, it is necessary to insert black female authors on the “school floor” from the perspective of deconstructing stereotypes constructed by Western canons and/or Brazilian classics, for the construction of imaginaries of resistance, since black female literary reading is a powerful instrument to deconstruct essentialist knowledge that feeds racism and its various dimensions and delegitimizes Afro-Brazilian art, culture and literature. The interventional practice will be based on a Basic Sequence along the lines of Cosson (2014) using the Critical Racial Literacy method, by Aparecida Ferreira (2015), based on the Critical Racial Theory, by Ladson-Billings and Tate (1998), also based on theorist Santos (2022), Freire (2005), Gomes (2017) among other decolonial authors.