Inquietações sobre a infância na obra de Lygia Bojunga

Abstract

This dissertation proposes a theoretical approach on some issues related to children's literature, based on an analysis of Lygia Bojunga's The Yellow Handbook (1976/2015), taking as a background psychoanalytic theory, the aesthetics of reception, the sociology of childhood and the theories and critiques of children's literature. Among several questions, some of them were indispensable to the delineation of the present research: what can be considered as "childhood"? What delimits a so-called children's literature? How does the reading process carried out by a child occur? Is it possible to consider that creative reading has similarities to playing? Can reading, like playing, be considered a resource of articulation of signifiers that operates, therefore, effects on the subject-reader? The field today named children's literature is difficult to approach, considering that it involves social, cultural, economic and political factors. Therefore, it is also sought to locate such impasses so that the theme is taken in its complexity, without being reduced to the stereotypes that accompany it, considering that the place attributed to the child-reader interferes in the cultural production aimed at such a public. In addition to the theoretical tools used, it is used the books of the same author, Paisagem (2013), Fazendo Ana Paz (2007a) and Livro - um encontro (2007b), due to the fact that these works express the author's gaze, in a creative way , on the process of reading, writing and the relation between them.