Towards a Decolonial Teaching of Literature

Abstract

This work emerges from some discomfort shared by its authors regarding the teaching of literature and the discussions about this domain, especially related to the culture exclusion of some subalternized groups from educational spaces. Our intention is to expand the debate on the coloniality of knowledge impact in the field of education and, more specifically, in the context of teaching literature. In the course of the discussion, themes such as multiculturalism, interculturality, literature canon, and teacher education will be arranged to support a proposal for teaching literature structured by the cultural diversity in which society is set, built along with subarternized subjects and incompatible with ethnic-racial, homophobic, misogynist and classist prejudice. Only after these transformations, it will be possible to think about teaching literature as an educational process of cultural inclusion and democratization.