Arar o ensino de literatura a contrapelo: Torto Arado e seu potencial para o letramento literário

Abstract

A book with a print run of five thousand is usually considered a best seller in Brazil. In contrast, Torto Arado has already sold one hundred thousand, in addition to having won the main national awards for novels. One of the aspects that stand out in justifying this success is the fact that the literature of Itamar Vieira Junior is a literature of alterities, directly dialoguing with the postulates of Benjamin (1987b) when proposing “brushing history against the grain”, which invites not only to think of an inversion of the order, but of a new establishment of the tradition of the oppressed. With this study, the goal is to analyze the forementioned novel from its representations of resistance to barbarism (Benjamin, 1987a; 1987b) and the scars of colonialism (Fanon, 1968) for the composition of literary discourse. From this interpretation, notes for a literacy project are also delimited, taking into account a didactic-methodological path in which literary reading is valued as an experience (Larrosa, 2002) and active listening (Bajour, 2012) is understood as an important method of apprehension. reality on the part of the students. In view of the analyzes raised, it is concluded that Torto Arado brings enriching contributions to human formation by committing to a revolutionary imaginative horizon for/with the oppressed, as well as the themes formalized in his speech present a fertile ground for a critical and liberating literary education.