Morte e Vida Severina: intertwined words and images

Abstract

The theme of this article is the literary reading in the school as an individual, social and historical experience in dialogue with photography. Specifically, is reported a project with 54 students from the 9th grade of a public school in São Paulo, that objective was to promote the reading of the book Morte e Vida Severina, by João Cabral de Melo Neto, in dialogue with images of the photographer Sebastião Salgado and the students´ pictures. The aim was based on current perspectives on didactics of literature and on the Bakhtinian concept of dialogism and verb-visuality, developed in two stages: first, reading the book in dialogue with photographs made by Sebastião Salgado and then production of 60 pictures of “Severine life” observed by the students in the neighborhood. As a result, stood out the effective participation of students and the articulation of the context of Brazilians and the current socio-historical context.