Da literatura à educação : imagens da educação na literatura do século XIX

Abstract

This research is an analytical study of the formation of the idea of education and their meanings in the Brazilian literature of the nineteenth century. The main objective of the study is to highlight the image of education from the works of Brazilian romanticism. Specifically the work emphasizes the importance of literature in the formation of national ideals; establishes relations between nation senses and education through a corpus considered as very little historical document research in Brazilian Education, and link education with the Brazilian colonial discourses. The works that foster discussion are Iracema and O Guarani by José de Alencar Ubirajara; A escrava Isaura by Bernardo Guimarães. The analyzes are supported in the analytical method, comparative postcolonial critical theory is the theoretical position that exploits the visualization of relationships between works, education and knowledge provided by the questioning of the colonial past. The literature is regarded as discursive manifestation that the template theory of AD French Foucaultian line, and therefore, would be creating realities and practices through its apparatuses and semantic significance. The study indicates that the ideological commitment of books and authors with reality resulted in the founding of the Brazilian nation and hence the institution of education that even a longing for social and political transformation from empire, shows conservative ideals of a colonial slavocrat society. Points are still new era aesthetic of realism and naturalism and the old forms of colonial oppression to systematize a grammar of social relations.