Letramento literário, ampliação de repertório e adaptação: inter-relações entre o conto, o cinema e os “causos” populares

Abstract

This work consists in presenting a proposal of interventional activity oriented to the practice of literary literacy to be applied in a ninth grade class of elementary school. With this intervention, we intend to approximate the students to the literary universe and, consequently, to promote the enlargement of their repertory, and to enable them to recognize the structure and the characteristics of the literary gender short story. In order to achieve the proposed objective, we used the concepts of Antônio Candido (1995) who approaches the right to literature, the concept of literary literacy presented by Cosson and Paulino (2009), the formation of a community of readers pointed out by Chartier (1998) and the concept of adaptation from the bias exposed by Hutcheon (2013). We also took into consideration the understanding of the repertory and in the importance of its enlargement presented by Even-Zohar (2013) and Iser (1996). In relation to the systematization of content about the literary gender short story, we use the approach presented by Moisés (1970). The methodology that guides the development of the interventional action is the “research action”, presented by Thiollent (2011). The development of the proposal, initially, is organized into three stages. The first refers to motivation, when images of tales are presented. They consist of the primordial narratives, to verify if the students recognize them. In the second stage of the interventional sequence, we explore how a short story is adapted into a motion picture, in such a way that the student is able to compare the relation between the written story and a movie, in order to recognize the main elements of the narrative. The last stage consists of a textual production, in which the students produce a written narrative of a “causo” (a type of short story) of the oral traditional from their community. This activity allows them to take advantage of the knowledge about the structure and the characteristics of the literary gender short story. The objective of this activity is to highlight the cultural heritage of the students’ community, to promote literary literacy and to enlarge repertory, in order to awaken the students to the experience with literary texts as readers and producers.