O mundo dos livros entre ruas e vielas: a nova cena de saraus, festas e eventos literários das periferia urbanas do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

When I have chosen to talk about culture, books, rough areas and slums, I was also talking about my personal background, the paths I followed, my militant practice to democratization of reading, those were my motivating factors in deepening my experiences and my theoretical framework. The dissertation The World of Books between streets and alleys: The new scene of saraus (poetry gathering) and literary celebrations in urban outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, aims to analyze the form of organization of community initiatives towards the dissemination of the practice of reading, on this purpose it will be presented three case studies of literary projects, debating both the origins, practices and challenges of different initiatives, in the Cidade de Deus, Complexo da Penha and Mangueira, as well as public policies for the sector, marked by intermittency and ephemerality. In this sense, the dissertation also analyzes the policies of the State for literature produced by rough areas and slums and will present proposals that could boost the community initiatives, recognizing and encouraging the slums of Rio de Janeiro to become territories of powers.