Literature; by whom and for who? The school and the production of literary presence

Abstract

This article aims to critically and personally discuss the literature production within schools, literary agent par excellence. Firstly, a presentation about the concepts of literacy as a social practice is promoted, which promotes social inclusion. Then, several examples are given and, together with these, there is an analysis of the denial of the right to literature within public school units, especially as it affects the black population that is part of it, which contradicts the humanizing proposal of the work of reading literature. Finally, the production of literature by the students is presented as a power to exist in the world and, therefore, as resistance, which dialogues with the theme of the VI Meeting of Reading and Literature of UNEB (Bahia State University). The central theme was Human Rights, Reading, and Literature: Creating, Existing, and Resisting.