Antônio Tavernard e a cultura das amazônias: práticas de leitura e outras imaginações

Abstract

The present work is a result of a research project that intended to develop activities based on reading and on the value of literature Amazon expression, developed in Maria da Silva Nunes Primary Municipal School involving 9th-grade classroom students as a means of creating identities. For this project, we present Antônio de Nazaré Frazão Tavernard (a poet, short story writer, and playwright) as the central researched author. In this way, this work is also a contribution draft to studies on Tavernard, a talented polygraphic writer, who has not yet been valued as he deserved in his birthplace – which is his main writing theme. The propose is to develop activities through workshops, interacting some short stories extracted from Fêmea, because it depicts a social prose on regional issues and, why not say, nacional. Doing so, it was possible to promote a reflection on the current social issues and pertinent problems to students' lives and reality. We believed that valuing the literature Amazon expression through this research and taking it to school is a way of learning about the students themselves, considering the reading essential within Portuguese classes and a very complex task. In this context, the interesting in using Amazon writer’s works to improve students' performance in classes of this curricular component emerged as well as the need to encourage creativity and orality through conversation groups, dramatization, in addition to other activities using this topic. In this way, we intended to stimulate literary literacy to provide greater interaction among the students, the teachers, the community in general and the Literature.