A figura das avós em narrativas de Graça Graúna e Eliane Potiguara: transmitindo memórias e fortalecendo a ancestralidade

Abstract

The aim of this text is to highlight the importance of grandmother characters in the construction of literary texts by indigenous authors. To this end, through the narratives Criaturas de Ñanderu (2010) and O pássaro encantado (2014), by the indigenous writers Graça Graúna and Eliane Potiguara, respectively, we will highlight how the elders contribute to the construction of the children's identity and ancestry. These works are starring grandmothers, indigenous matriarchs, who are excellent storytellers and contribute to the transmission of ancestral memory and the strengthening of the ancestry of indigenous children. Thus, the elders, in the literary text, as in the communities, are responsible for the storytelling, identity formation, memory and ancestry of the little ones. Thus, in these narratives, the wisdom that grandmothers carry is remarkable, as they are the holders of knowledge accumulated from generation to generation and transmit inherited knowledge. That way, for the development of the text, we will use as theoretical support authors such as Olivieri-Godet (2020), Kambeba (2020), Costa (2020), Lopes (1990), among others.