During an American Literature survey course at an American university, there was a racial incident at the

During an American Literature survey course at an American university, there was a racial incident at the

ENADE 2017 - QUESTÃO 15

During an American Literature survey course at an American university, there was a racial incident at the university library. It was bad enough to make the President of the university send a message condemning racism and improper behavior, and to lead many African American students hold protests and marches on campus.

In the final exam period, the professor responsible for the survey course exhorted students that such incidents show why we need to study literature, specifically literature of diverse voices from the past. He mentioned some texts which directly addressed white readership about the hypocrisy of racial bias, as a prime example of the type of literary work that the offending student, and all students, should be reading so as to interrogate critically their own prejudices and to nullify or respond thoughtfully to such hateful acts. He also encouraged them to be activists in addition to scholars, to speak up against injustice while remembering the lessons of earlier American culture wars.

Asthe ensuing final project presentations demonstrated, he needn't have bothered. The class had already internalized these lessons and applied them to their anthology and literary recovery projects. These projects recovered forgotten or neglected voices and put them into conversation with our world of 2015 or grouped together activist or subversive texts from American writers. Regardless of the topics they chose, these students were making pre-1900 American literature speak to their time as well as to its own. In essence, this was the entire point of the survey course, which, throughout the semester, worked to surface issues of canon: who's in, who's out, and who decides, at what points in history.

THOMPSON, T; TONTI, K. American Literature Time Machine: Toward a Democratic 

Canon in the Undergraduate Survey Course. 

American Literature: À Jounal of Theory and Practice, v.8, n. 4, p. 14-38, 2017 (adaptado).

Segundo esse texto, o professor de literatura norte-americana repensou o currículo e a sua prática na sala de aula a partir de um incidente ocorrido na universidade onde leciona. A proposta do professor foi 

A) estudar em suas aulas de literatura as obras de autores norte-americanos que tratassem do tema do preconceito racial.

B) apresentar a seus alunos as obras canônicas da literatura norte-americana para que pudessem conhecer a cultura daquele país.

C) concentrar-se na leitura de autores oitocentistas norte-americanos que tratassem de ativismo social contra a questão do racismo.

D) trabalhar com a internalização do conteúdo das suas aulas de literatura norte-americana para que se saíssem melhor em seus projetos sociais.

E) resgatar obras e autores do passado que dialogassem com questões socioculturais atuais e cuja leitura levasse a questionamentos críticos acerca de posicionamentos preconceituosos do presente.

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GABARITO:

E) resgatar obras e autores do passado que dialogassem com questões socioculturais atuais e cuja leitura levasse a questionamentos críticos acerca de posicionamentos preconceituosos do presente.

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