Literature is resistance

literary reading experiences in the classroom

Abstract

This article defends the literary formation of basic education students and Portuguese language teachers. Candido, Colomer, and Zilberman are used to defend the right and importance of access to Brazilian literature. So, two literary reading experiences that took place at CEPAE are reported: Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos, with a class of professional master's students – with the theoretical contribution of Candido, Coutinho, and Bastos; and Olhos d´água, by Conceição Evaristo, with students from the eleventh grade of high school, considering the theoretical contributions of Evaristo herself as well as Ribeiro, Santos, and Kilomba. These literary works were chosen by professors from the Portuguese Language Department of the Center for Teaching and Research Applied to Education at the Federal University of Goiás, since, in addition to their aesthetic and critical relevance, they raise the issue of the condition of the despoiled in literature. The results of these experiments are reported, which were presented at the Colloquium event for the discipline Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Literature Teaching - Literature is Resistance, part of the Professional Master's program at this institution.