A representação das mulheres negras em Negrinha, de Monteiro Lobato, e Minha Mãe é Negra Sim, de Patrícia Santana, como proposta de leitura semiótica para ensino médio.

Abstract

Most of the time absent, occupying secondary roles of adjuvant or villain, and when they are found in the leading role, which rarely happens, they are always trapped in environments that do not qualify them, the black people still occupy a secondary space in Brazilian literature. Therefore, this research aims to analyze how women are represented in the short story “Negrinha”, by Monteiro Lobato, and “Minha Mãe é Negra Sim”, by Patrícia Santana, in order to reflect on this theme in high school. To do so, we articulate basic concepts of semiotics with emphasis on semantic productivity; also punctuate the condition of black women in the corpora of analysis; and reflect on the theme of the representation of black women in literature as a thematic discussion proposal for the first year of high school. Using the theoretical contributions of Discourse Semiotics with Greimas (1989), who proposes a generative path of meaning; and in studies by Brazilians such as Fiorin (2021) and Barros (2005) who present contributions about this path; we searched for studies about the representation of women in literature with Gomes (2013), Bezerra and Cortiva (2012), and followed with the contributions of Kilomba (2019), Silva (2021), and Evaristo (2014) in order to dialogue about the representation of black women in literature. The methodology adopted was discourse analysis, taking into account semiotics as an analysis methodology and the approach was qualitative. Within a universe of ten short stories read, the short story “Negrinha”, by Monteiro Lobato, and “My Mother is black”, by Patrícia Santana, were chosen for analysis according to the following criteria: the presence of black women in the short stories selected for analysis and the position occupied by black women in the corpora. The results exposed the proof that the position is of inferiority and the representation occupied by black women present in the tales is of racial prejudice.