Cancelamento de Monteiro Lobato: Análise de posicionamentos em jornais brasileiros sobre o racismo nas obras do escritor

Abstract

The Internet was the space that revolutionized ways people interact and especially how they access news about where they live and the world. As technology amplified the flow of information, manifestations of hate speech became more frequent, kicking off the cancel culture. In this context, this movement posthumously reached Monteiro Lobato, accused of having written children's books with racist passages, and whose name came back to the surface after his works entered the public domain, becoming subject to editing and rewriting. Based on Content Analysis, this work observes the possible impacts of Lobato's cancellation, in his works and their applicability in education, through the analysis of the circulation of articles, published by nationwide newspapers, about the presence of racism in the author's productions. In conclusion, it was verified that most of the articles that proposed to discuss racism in Lobato's books remained limited in their arguments, running away from the initial proposal of analyzing racist passages in children's books.