FANTASTIC NARRATIVE: A STUDY OF THE INDIGENOUS TALE: THE SORCERESS LOVERS

Abstract

This work consists of a study on the indigenous tale As lovers witches, entitled by the Karajá people, present in the book A skull -rolling, woman-slug and other indigenous stories to scare author Daniel Munduruku published in 2010, from the perspective of of fantastic literature. In this research we aim to discuss the formation of young readers, having the literary text as a focus, raising reflections about affectivity through reading, we will take advantage of indigenous literature to promote criticality and valorization of identities. We carried out our actions, adopting methodologies of a bibliographical and field nature, we carried out a search for references that would give us theoretical and investigative support and a qualitative research was carried out with 90 young people from public and private schools in the city of São Paulo, students of elementary school ll is medium. We obtained expressive results, showing the appreciation of this audience for fantastic stories of terror and mystery. The study undertaken here and our trajectory as a teacher have shown that literary training with the voices of peoples originating from the Brazilian territory is increasingly necessary at all levels of basic education, since it helps in the human and cognitive development of the subjects. such as the deconstruction of stereotypes. We believe that the analysis of indigenous literature with an emphasis on fantastic literature can expand and enrich the author-text-reader interaction, providing a better interpretation, understanding and development of reading skills.