Abstract

HILLESHEIM, Betina  and  GUARESCHI, Neuza Maria de Fátima. Fairy tales and childhood. Educ. Real. [online]. 2006, vol.31, n.01, pp.107-126. ISSN 0100-3143.

This paper discusses the procedure fairytales use to produce ways of seeing, describing and understanding childhood, prescribing ways of being children. The decision of studying the fairy-tales was made based on the fact that these are the spotlight for children's literature. In this paper we have highlighted accidents, coincidences as well as regularities that appear in this literature. We discuss the ways in which fairy tales articulate the discursive production on childhood (of blame and irrationality, as well as of innocence) as a way of governing it. By doing so, fairy tales discipline and control children's bodies and become a pedagogical project. We claim, nonetheless, that art brings the possibility of rupture, transgression and resistance, allowing for the experience of strangeness, of "things that did not yet become".

Keywords : Fairy Tales; Childhood; Discursive Production.

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