Children's Literature and Brazilian identity of black children

This article aims to analyze how the black child is characterized in relation to the stereotypes created around the black, in the course of Brazilian history in children's narratives, from a sociological approach to the literary text and the assumptions of comparative literature. To this end, we selected some childish narratives that feature characters black children, and you can see that these works reveal the transformations that occurred in Brazilian society with regard to black. This work is based on the theoretical support in the works of Rosangela Malachias and Florestan Fernandes, among others. The analysis was organized to observe the difficulties of identifying the black child before the European cultural dictates about the standard model of beauty. In general, one can observe that the production of works whose characters are black children intensified after the 1988 Constitution and the Law 10.639/2003. The literary discourse aimed at children, so undergoes changes before changes in society and shows a new socio-historical context in which minorities gain more space, but respect for differences yet to occur effectively in social relations that the black is really valued.

Is the flower still beautiful after hours and hours closed in a pocket? About representations, idealizations and disappointments in Augusto Abelaira

The present work proposes a reading of the artistic-intellectual project of the Portuguese writer Augusto Abelaira, from de novels The City of Flowers and Bolor, in order to place him in the scenery of the Portuguese neo-realism and the intellectual resistance against fascism. The expression of the idealizations and disappointments in the work of Abelaira points to an opposite direction to that identified with the socialist realism and with what was conventionally called doctrinaire neo-realism in Portugal before the public emergency of the controversy between those who defended the primacy of the content and another aesthetic response that problematizes the pre-eminence of a specular model. Thus, there never was an internal homogeneity neither aesthetic nor theoretical in the movement. The public emergency of this debate translates a controversy that is not confined to the aesthetic, but is, in its most profound dimension, theoretical and political. The objective of the work is to demonstrate the writing procedures of Augusto Abelaira as susceptible techniques to represent conceptions of life and of the world able to translate a social demand, that are, ultimately, writing programs appropriate to the envisioned transformations. Therefore, there is not one unique neo-realistic writing program, but there is a neo-realistic aesthetics which is the literary neo-realism itself that the works of Augusto Abelaira helps to compose.      Keywords: Augusto Abelaira; Intellectual writer; Neo-realism. 

LITERATURE AND THE REALM OF FILM ADAPTATION

Este artigo resultou, com algumas alterações, de parte da um dos capítulos da Dissertação de Mestrado do autor, intitulado “Film and Television Adaptation: A Comparitive Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire Adaptations for Cinema and Television”, apresentada à UFSC em fevereiro de 2004. O objetivo do mesmo é discutir os principais postulados teóricos concernentes aos estudos em adaptação cinematográfica de textos literários, surgidos a partir da década de 1950. A discussão centra-se, principalmente, nos aspectos que envolvem o processo de adaptação cinematográfica, em especial, no processo de adaptação de romance e texto dramático para o cinema, através da análise de diferentes categorias de adaptação cinematográfica proposta por teóricos como Bluestone (1957), Wagner (1975), MacFarlane (1996) e Stam (2000).

LITERATURE, WHAT FOR? HEGEL, A READER OF GOETHE OR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY IN GERMAN IDEALISM

The purpose of this article is to present what are the relations between the work of Goethe and Hegelian philosophy within the political and philosophical project of German idealism. We'll think the relationship between literature and philosophy in the context of political idealism, philosophy in seeking an answer to the question: "What is literature for?".