Escrevendo com a própria voz: uma análise sobre representatividade negra na literatura infantojuvenil

Abstract

This scientific work utilizes the #OwnVoices movement to start a discussion about black representation and contemporary young adult literature. First, there’s an analysis about literature sociology and its theoriticians, to then go towards the concept of social representation and which of them are most common about black people. After that, there’s a comparison of two New York Times bestseller books, one by a black female author, and one by a white male author, to see which of them are more representative. In the analysis, it was possible to infere that, since representation has a lot to say about political choices that the author makes towards a certain group, the black female author has more life experience to write representative characters.