Dos cânones ao mangá: indicações de leitura dos estudantes de letras e pedagogia

Resumen

This paper is part of the project “Reading in undergraduate courses: spaces, materialities and contexts in teacher education”. It analyses the recommendations of literary readings made by Literature and Pedagogy undergraduate students, who were participants of an interdisciplinary research funded by Academic Cooperation Program (PROCAD/ CAPES), developed in four universities from different regions of Brazil. Its main objective is to map undergraduate students’ literary reading experiences, preferences, behaviors, concepts of literary reading and literature, as well as the forces that converge in the construction of these representations. The study was based on the answers to two open questions, which demanded participants to recommend a book that had interested/touched them, followed by a justification. Analyses show the influence of different fields in the literary formation of these subjects. Readers' comments on literatures (classical and mass) indicate that literary reading is seen as a form of entertainment, pleasure, comfort, appropriation of knowledge, and reflection on human existence. Their readings, are limited to their cultural repertoire and the subjective relationships that they establish in contact with the work, should not be disqualified, disrespected, because these practices are added to others that should be appropriated in their academic education, expanding their personal library.