Dialogism between the Brothers Grimm and Chico Buarque: revisiting classic children's stories

The act of narrating stories and recreate the world of fantasy, as well as discuss the human condition, are essential dimensions of the stories for the infant universe. Reading, analysis and production of children's stories in educational settings assist in the cognitive, social and emotional development of children-readers. Therefore, the dialogic and interactive approach of texts has been the subject of several debates in literary studies, linguistic and, in general, in education. From the foregoing, I discuss initially concepts linked to the dialogic conception of language from the theoretical postulates of Mikhail Bakhtin (1997) and students of Bakhtinian perspective in the national context (FARACO, 2001; BRAIT, 2005). Like this, the objective of this research is to propose a dialogue between children's narratives “The Musicians of Bremen” (1812) of the Brothers Grimm and “The Mummers” Chico Buarque (1977). In this sense, I present a contextualized approach these stories, trying to rescue the origin of fairy tales and its consolidation in the medieval context. The methodology consists of a qualitative approach, from theme analysis of tnarrativas. ale and fable - objects of this study - seeking to highlight the similarities and differences as well as the social representations, political and cultural present in these narratives.

AMBIVALENCES IDENTITY IN THE BROTHERS, MILTON HATOUM

This article presents a reading of the novel The Brothers, by Milton Hatoum, focused on the narrator’s condition and his identity implications. Nael, the protagonist narrator, grew blended to a family of his own and random at the same time, without knowing his space amongst the group. The uncertainty of his origins have shaped a floating identity between the position of the son/grandson and the position of the employee aggregated to the group. The ambivalences of this identity are narrated searching for answers, the stabilization of Nael’s identity space. To this end, the main instrument is the memory, the only mean to resignify the past and fulfill the lack of wholeness which accompanies Nael: the wholeness is achieved with the agitation of the past, the memories and especially, the silences and the family forgetfulness. The reflections about the possible identity positions of the narrator find support in the theoretical concepts of memory and identity from a sociological and anthropological perspective. Key words: memory; identity; The Brothers.