The poetics of environmental care in brazilian children's and young literature

Abstract

The article seeks to problematize the environmental theme in the literature for childhood and youth, in particular in those narratives that present and represent the relationship of characters with water resources, taking into account the context of the discussion of natural preservation as a first step, falling on titles that have the waters as a potentiating force: The rivers die of thirst (1976), Wander Piroli, and Agua de anil (2014), by Nilma Lacerda. We try to show in these narratives a poetic of care with the environment, for this we support the studies of Ecoliteracia (RAMOS, RAMOS, 2013) and Ecocritical studies (CAPRA, 2008, GARRARD, 2006). We find in the analysis the recurrence of care in a different way, because different are the historical moments of writing and the context of production affects the result for this reader who is no longer the same. However, it does not preclude the reader experience with environmental issues.