Direito à literatura indígena e a pluralização do cânone: um diálogo a partir da concepção de Candido.

Abstract

Candido's (2001) conception about the right to literature, understood as an unavoidable human need, endowed with a social and humanizing dimension, motivated the writing of this paper, which aims to establish a dialog between this vision and the literature of native peoples, in order to stimulate discussion about the deconstruction of a single canon for Brazilian historiography. To do this, we have made a bibliographical research, going through both the referenced work and publications by critics who theorize indigenous literature and/or question the meaning of the canon in contemporaneity, including authors such as Dorrico (2017), Graúna (2013), Librandi-Rocha (2014), Lima (2014), Munduruku (2020), Padilha (2005), Santiago (2021), and Adichie (2009). Thus, indigenous literature escapes the traditions established by this Western historiographical heritage, dificulting its recognition (by the critic) and the enjoyment of the (human) right to literature, which has by default the right to be, to exist and to humanize everyone.