O perfil de infância em A casa da coruja verde de Alina Paim

Abstract

The present work aims to present a reflection on the children 's play A Casa da Coruja Verde (1962), by the sergipe writer Alina Paim, about the perspective of studies on childhood. For this, we are based on the conceptions of childhood and child developed by Andrade (2010), Arroyo (2012), Benjamin (2002) and Sociology of Childhood through Faria & Finco (2011), whose purpose of texts show the social ideological aspects added to this fundamental period for human development. Regarding the literary prism, we are based on the constructions of Cademartori (2010), Coelho (1985) and Lajolo & Zilbermam (2007) regarding the development context of children's literature. To do so, we use a qualitative methodology through an investigation of the theme, in this way, we present a reading about the profile of childhood and child portrayed by Paim in said work, since, consistent with contemporary thinking that considers the child a citizen, active and insightful, who builds his childhood through his own experience. Thus, our research also intends to contribute to the dissemination of the works of this illustrious sergipe who despite producing works of inestimable literary value is omitted from the canon.