Into the un-limits of the Word in Manoel de Barros: minor literature and childhood

Abstract

In order to enhance the becoming-nomad that pulsates in schools and subversifies the curricula, the article makes use of the concepts of minor literature, minor language, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, nomadism, molar lines, molecular lines and lines of flight, smooth and striated spaces, and nomadic war machine (Deleuze, Guattari and Parnet), and of uselessness, un-utensil, childhood, invention, un-limit of the word and manoelês idiolect (Barros), in order to problematize the concepts of ludic, play and seriousness, and to foster possible meaning productions from the babbling and stuttering of 2^nd grade children in their process of reinventing a foreign language within a major language, in texts produced in a reading workshop.