Abstract

FREITAS, Letícia Fonseca Richthofen  and  SILVEIRA, Rosa Maria Hessel. Girls in boys’ games: a case study in Brazilian children’s literature. LTP [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.62, pp.43-57. ISSN 2317-0972.

Drawing on studies on children’s literature and gender studies, and considering gender as socially and culturally constructed identity marks, this paper aims to analyze the subversive potential of gender representations in children’s books concerning a traditionally male sport, soccer, and a related game, marbles. This argument becomes reasonable in plots with female protagonists as soccer or marble players, in which the narrative conflict is constructed around the struggle for female spaces in these practices. We have analyzed the books Nariz em pé, Joana Banana and Menina não entra, noting that they provide excerpts that are characterized by a style that escapes aesthetical standards. As a conclusion, we have observed that these works are related to what Colomber (2003) sees as a tendency in recent children’s literature: features assigned to both genders are getting closer.

Keywords : Gender; Children’s Literature; Female Protagonists.

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