The indigenous voice and education: forgetfulness in the literary works Antes o mundo não existia e Meu querido canibal

Abstract

This work has the central theme the presence/absence of indigenous otherness as part of a colonial discourse in the schooling context, whose pedagogy maintain an imaginary of invisibility with the alterity. Despite the school being a learning environment which develops social consciousness, it also gives privilege to a dominant and homogeneous discourse. The forgetfulness is more visible after the statistical analysis of the mandatory readings from literary Works in the last vestibulares. In the exams of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 the Federal Universities of the Southern part of Brasil, none of the institutions demanded any aesthetical and political Reading toward indigenous identity. Having colonial, educational and cultural theory in mind, the contemporaneous literatures Antes o Mundo Não Existia  (1995), by Tõrãmu Kehíri and Meu Querido Canibal (2000), by Antônio Torres highlighted, above all, the relation between the fight of the indigenous peoples and the symbolic fight against the forgetfulness and its submission to colonial signs.