Sarue are the House of honor: cordel literature and literature in infant school space

Abstract

The encounter of two important aspects of our literature, in the classroom, can contribute to produce readers who are open to different dimensions of the culture produced in the country, as well as to observe approaches that are often kept off the readings done in the school context. The dialogue between children’s literature
and popular literature is always emphasized by researchers. However, almost always popular culture appears only as a source to be reinterpreted or recreated. In this article we offer an approximation between two literary works, one from string literature (A Trip to St. Saruê, Manuel Camilo dos Santos), and another
from children’s literature (The godmother’s house, by LigiaBojungaNunes). Our goal is to draw attention to the possibility of a comparative approach between works of different contexts, but which present correlated themes, and also to point out the possibilities of new approaches to string literature in the school
context as literature and not merely as a pretext to teach curriculum contents.