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Dramaturgy is for children: A study of Luiz Marinho's work within the context of literary trends at the end of the 20th century

Children's Literature. Dramaturgy. Tendencies. Infancy.

This work analyzed the three children's plays by the Pernambuco playwright Luiz Marinho, Foi um Dia, As Aventuras do Capitão Flúor, no Reinado do Dente Cariado and A Família Ratoplan, written between the seventies and eighties, a period marked by a literary and theatrical production for more playful, creative, diversified children with daring themes and less moralizing and pedagogical. To carry out this study, initially, the various possible ways of conceptualizing children's literature and the difficulties encountered by those who work with this genre are known, which are directly available to the subalternity of the implicit reader, the child. Finally, always trying to observe the child's closest point of view, in the sense of making use of and understanding the work directed at him, this research revealed in Marinho's texts the innovations and concomitant trends for him, concluding that the playwright is part of the group of authors of the so-called contemporary phase of Brazilian children's literature.