National Identity and Negritude in Children's Stories
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This paper will discuss the effects of the Brazilian law 10.639/03 on children’s literature field and the black and afro-brazilian culture’s portraits from curly hair stories. This paper is a result of research project “Dez anos da lei 10.639 e Literatura Infanto-Juvenil: Discursos afro-brasileiros em construção” and the monography “O mundo começa na cabeça: O cabelo crespo e a construção de identidade nas histórias infanto-juvenis”. Our debate is about Brazilian national identity construction from racial issues. Therefore, the argument concentrates in discuss literature and its participation in the national identity construction. And analyses 6 children’s stories about curly hair from the black and national identity points. At the end, we conclude thinking about what contributions these stories can brings to new national identity arrangements.
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