Crianças, adultos e bagagens : a herança da educação sem testamento em narrativas de Lygia Bojunga.

Abstract

In this dissertation, we research how the space of imagination present in the works A bolsa amarela (1976), A casa da madrinha (1978), Corda bamba (1979), O sofá estampado (1980), 6 vezes Lucas (1995), A cama (1999), Aula de inglês (2006) e Sapato de salto (2006), by Lygia Bojunga, suggests education anchored in the correlations between adult-child and adult teacher-child. The selection of works is due to the presence, in the plots, of the archetype of “baggage” (a constant image throughout the author's production) in correlation with the element “teacher character”. Based on the reading and study of these narratives, we investigated whether the baggage image is linked to the changes that take place, throughout the narrative, with the characters who have or come to possess them, whether the space of imagination proposed by the baggage archetype broadens the perception of the human completeness of the characters and, finally, we study the position of the adult in relation to the child in the way he presents the world to him, assuming (or not) the adultness. To support notions regarding co-responsibility between education, adults, children and the shared world, we turn to authors such as Hannah Arendt and Gert Biesta. Likewise, the link between the archetypal image and the experience that Lygia Bojunga transfigured to the words in each plot was explored through aspects related to individuation, formation of the self and vocation in Carl Gustav Jung and James Hillman. With this research, we confirm that the “baggage” always promotes significant changes in the lives of the characters who have it, who have contact with it or who come to have it, being related to an inheritance linked, in some way, to education. Furthermore, we verified that the descriptions of the baggage and their journeys symbolically amplify complex characteristics of the characters and that they, when adults, do not always assume their adulthood, either to teach or to learn.