Literatura de ficção e Educação Geográfica: tradição inventada, modelação social e discurso na obra O Continente, de Erico Verissimo

Abstract

From the assumption that Literature allows the construction of identity processes and Geographic Education can, as mediator, have the potential to deconstruct stereotypes developed over time by the most diverse media, if using Literature itself - which influences the others; the purpose of this Master's Dissertation is to analyze the use of fiction Literature in Geographic Education as a modeling strategy. From an analysis of the discourse - as methodology and language - of the first volume of The Continent, by Verissimo, the work is exemplified as fundamental in approaching issues related to the construction of the territory and the people of Rio Grande do Sul. It is understood the modeling as an essential concept in this approach, starting from Albert Bandura and his Cognitive Social Theory that observes in the concept the base of observational learning, especially in a symbolic way, that refers to learning by the influence of media models, in which Literature fits. As for the discursive notes of the work, it is expressed a misogynistic and patriarchal predominance in the discursive and ideological formation of the characters of the plot, who have in the women, black and indigenous links of the author with the critique of this culture in Rio Grande do Sul. perceived in an exclusive identity construction. Possibilities of a geographical and critical approach by the literary work and Literature are pointed out more broadly.The research interrelated Geography, reading and Literature, demonstrating the geographical character of Literature - even when not surrounded by geographic concepts - and the evolution of its use and importance in science, having, in the end, Geographical Education as a possibility of an approach critique of reality, in the understanding of the active subjects in the learning process from a geography that serves to understand the problems of the environment and the world, beyond the formality of education, but in a broad and focused way in the geographic reasoning.