Infância, educação e contradições na prosa de Cecília Meireles

Abstract

In this work, we analyze the intellectual trajectory of Cecília Meireles as problematizing issues related to Education and Child Literature in her prose works. For that, a presentation and figuration of the child we performed both from the perspective of the Escola Nova, through the work Criança meu amor and the author's chronicles, as well also as in the representations of his memories from the book Olhinhos de Gato. We observe the political gaze that marks the itinerary traveled by the writer from the texts of the 1920s, on childhood and education, to the critical re-creation of the history of Brazil in Romanceiro da Inconfidência (1953) which proposes, and of a certain form "teaches", a new way of reading the hegemonic texts. In this way, it was possible observe that Cecilia Meireles chooses, according to her critical perspectives in each of these three decades of intellectual work, different heroic figures, from Rui Barbosa (predestined and consecrated hero) to Tiradentes (discredited and martyred hero). We have some literary works in prose that we use to analyze it was Criança meu amor (1924), Olhinhos de Gato (1940), Rui – pequena história de uma grande vida (1948) and Romanceiro da Inconfidência (1953), as well as some chronicles in this literary works O que se diz e o que se entende (1980).