Fantasia e poder na literatura para crianças : obras e respostas leitoras

Abstract

This dissertation is organized as a collection of two articles that explore the relationship between fantasy and the transgression of aetonormativity in children’s literature. Grounded in leading experts in the fields of literary education and literary criticism, such as Teresa Colomer, Peter Hunt, Perry Nodelman, and Maria Nikolajeva, the study seeks to understand the relationship between fantasy and aetonormativity in children’s literature and its effects on children’s reader responses. The first article presents a theoretical, exploratory study aimed at understanding how fantasy manifests in children’s literature, drawing on the field’s theoretical production and the analysis of a selected corpus of literary works. The second article corresponds to a qualitative field research, which aims to understand how the transgression of aetonormativity, mobilized by children's fantasy literature, impacts the reading responses of third-grade elementary school children. Taken together, these two approaches foster reflection on the critical potential of fantasy in literature for young readers while also examining the underlying intentions of literary works historically marked by the reproduction of normative discourses.