Abstract

PAMPLONA, Marina Harter  and  FERREIRA, Marcelo Santana. Facing the end of the world, start over with childhood. Desidades [online]. 2021, n.31, pp. 107-118. ISSN 2318-9282.

This article, written in the context of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil, draws on the imaginary proposition of the destructive character, present in Walter Benjamin's writings, which points to historical and temporal condensations where the world is tested in its vocation for destruction. In this article, we seek to operationalize the game that makes up the relationship between the image of a necessary destruction for the opening of the new, and the possibility of operationalizing a retroversive gesture of the narrative that is made through the alliance with childhood, that is, transforming the ways to tell the story and pass through the present time. For this, we go through a critique of a hegemonic conception of childhood that silences it by docilization, and we support ourselves on a political conception of childhood. Among what collapses, children are heirs to the survival of the art of storytelling, facing the accelerated temporality of Information, reviving the potential to make these distant narratives a certain raw material to guide the present and the future. We also use literary productions carried out by children in Latin America that offer us the image of the face of something that we are, and call us to reparation for the possibility of retelling part of our history.

Keywords : childhood; play; history; literature.

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