TESTIMONIAL CONTENT AND CHILDHOOD IN NUMBER THE STARS BY LOIS LOWRY.

Resumo

This paper seeks to analyze the work "Number the Stars" through the lens of memory and testimonial content. The work presents the experience of a girl who survived the Second World War with facts witnessed by a German family who lived in Denmark and began to deal with the presence of the Nazis. As a theoretical basis for this analysis, we resort to authors such as Seligmann Silva (2002) who discusses testimony, memory and testimonial content, Vilela (2012) who analyzes the articulations of testimony as a form of meaning and sense, Salgueiro (2012) who analyzes the strands and types of testimony. This analysis will benefit from the studies of Don Latham with an article entitled Childhood under Siege: Lois Lowry 's Number the Stars and The Giver, which highlights the different types of childhood according to each society or historical context.  The purpose of this analysis is to show the importance of testimonial content as a literary form of resistance, as well as to analyze the presence of childhood in the work according to the author's perspective. This work is the result of the orientations received in the research project for scientific initiation CRENAC –  Configurations of Resistance in Contemporary Anglophone Narratives – coordinated by professor Dr. Ana Lilia Carvalho Rocha of which I was part as a scholarship holder by FAPESP “Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa no Pará”