Literatura infanto-juvenil: releituras da obra Chapeuzinho Vermelho, linguagens e reflexões na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This monograph seeks to understand the importance of children's and youth literature related to the social life of the reading public, especially for children and adolescents today. There is always an increasing amount of contemporary tales written from the reinterpretations of traditional tales. In the re-readings we find social, cultural, historical and political changes. Children's literature known as a cultural symbol, has power in relation to the child's life with the contemporary world. Showing the socio-cultural values existing in the modern world, evolving the child's knowledge and linguistic knowledge. According to the reflections of the tale Little Red Riding Hood (1697) by Charles Perrault, and Little Red Riding Hood (1812) by the Brothers Grimm, and Little Red Riding Hood (2004) by Rubem Alves and a famous story (2010) by Carolina Alonso, making possible reflections on the changes and moral principles, in the representations of gender and sexuality represented in the narrated tales. This study shows important and fundamental ideas on the part of theorists and experts about gender and the sexuality studies and the intertextuality seen in contemporary and classic tales in relation to current society in order to understand children’s and youth literature about life and custos of each being in contemporary society.