A infância nos entretons da terra: um estudo sobre Indez (1989), de Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós.

Abstract

The present work has as its object the book Indez (1989), Bartolomeu Campos de Queiros (1940-2012). Initially, we intended to situate the author’s literary production in the restricted context of children’s literature and Brazilian youth through critical reading of several studies and research already conducted in order to understand the reception that the work - study object already deserved the national literary medium. Then analysis of a structural nature and socio-historical relations was performed, using the categories “space” and “characters”, seeking to understand how, in telling the story of the protagonist (Antonio - precocious child), the narrator idealizes and sacralizes childhood, transforming it into a socio-cultural process and not just a phase of life. At the end of the dissertation, we seek to address the aesthetic and literary qualities present in the works, highlighting aspects that stand out in the world of contemporary Brazilian literature, surpassing the sub categorization of a given critical current that limits the children's literature genre.