A NOÇÃO DE RAÇA E RACISMO NOS DISCURSOS DE CONSTRUÇÃO E APRESENTAÇÃO DE PERSONAGENS NEGROS NA LITERATURA INFANTO-JUVENIL BRASILEIRA

Abstract

This article presents an exercise of analysis resulting from a research that aimed to investigate and highlight the effects of meaning that discourses can produce in narratives about stories of black people in children's literature in order to identify the notions of race and racism, as well as the aspects of quilombism that emerge in these discourses. The study is qualitative in nature and the analysis of the selected corpus was carried out with the support of the analytical devices of French Discourse Analysis, anchored in the studies of Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi. The cor-pus of analysis is composed of clippings extracted from texts by several authors that deal with the theme, namely: "Chico-Rei" by Renato Lima; and "O menino Nito" by Sônia Rosa. The analyses indicate that the discourses can produce effects of meaning that are not foreseen by the authors, such as the association of skin color with poverty, banditry, rascality, homosexuality, among other racist and prejudiced ideas about the black man and his history in the constitution of Brazilian society, placing him in a situation of inferiority.