Produção, validação e difusão: biografias de personagens negros para as crianças.

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyze the production, validation and dissemination of biographical narratives for children with an emphasis on those that feature the black subject as the protagonist. To this end, the work characterizes informative books for children, presents a contextualization of the biographical genre in children's literature and proposes the investigation of a biographical work that features the black leader Nelson Mandela as the protagonist. Theorists such as Lajolo and Zilberman (2007) and Linden (2011) are used to support the discussions. Furthermore, we bring to the fore contemporary research on the topic. Our premises are that biographical books written by authors who live the black experience make less stereotypical representations of both the place and the actions of the subjects. However, biographies still tend to characterize the character as a hero, emphasizing his moralizing and educational character.