A dialogue between the oppressed: When Paulo Freire's illiterate meets William Shakespeare's Caliban
Illiterate; Caliban; Paulo Freire; Shakespeare; Our America.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997) are important figures in their respective fields of knowledge, literature and education. A priori, not traditionally thought of together. However, this dissertation presents the dialogical encounter of both, from a non-hegemonic look of investigation, having as scope the character Caliban of the Shakespearean play The Tempest (1610-1611) and the illiterate adults with whom the pedagogue Paulo Freire worked with his Literacy Method in the early 1960s (Civil-military pre-coup of 1964) in Brazil. The study reveals itself as a theoretical research developed through the analysis of the Brazilian historical context of the period and the objectives and characteristics of the Method of the Pernambuco educator and his literacy students, in parallel with the interpretations of the Shakespearean play from the post-colonial studies, above all, from Our America and dated in the 19th and 20th century. The objective, therefore, is to demonstrate that there is a possible dialogue to be built between William Shakespeare and Paulo Freire, evidenced by the figure of Caliban emerging, to a certain extent, a Brazilianness, as well as its creator exposes a prism of non-hegemonic appreciation that dialogues, in fact, with the reality and conditions of Brazil and of Brazilian illiterate adults from the early 60s and the implications of the freirian literacy task in the period