Memória e despatriarcalização na obra infantil Minha Valente Avó

Abstract

The period of the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985) bequeathed severe fractures to the Brazilian culture, as well as to the families that suffered the consequences of the regime's tortious will. In this article, we propose to reflect on the potential of reading the hybrid writing of history and children's and youth fiction, through the analysis of the work Minha Valente Avó (2020), produced by the Prestes family, which played an important role in the fight for end of the dictatorship. This work is dedicated to the figure of the grandmother, wife of Luís Carlos Prestes, which denotes, in fiction, an act of depatriarchalization (GALINDO, 2013), purpose, also of decolonial thought and the decolonial turn according to Castro-Gómez; Grosfoguel (2007) and Mignolo (2007). On a theoretical level, we aim to study the dialogues between memory, history and literature based on Hobsbawn (2008); Figueiredo (2020); Fleck (2017); Klock (2021). With regard to methodology, we privileged a qualitative research, a bibliographic review; just as we carried out an examination of the corpus content through literary theory (GENETTE, 1979; 1998) and discursive semiotics (FIORIN, 2016); (TEIXEIRA, 1998; 2021). As a result of the research, we point to the potential of this work, as a hybrid narrative that combines aspects of memory, history and fiction, and its relevance to the formation of a literary reader towards decolonial thinking and the decolonization of Latin American minds and identities.