This paper's aim is to treat the selection of authors in the Brazilian literature that entered the school through the pages of textbooks from the 5th to the 8th grades, investigating the criteria of this selection in the 70s, in the dictatorship context, and its relations with the literary production. In dialogue with a previous study conducted by the writer Osman Lins, the analysis focuses on five Portuguese teaching collections, considered as school anthologies that have contributed so much to the preservation of the Brazilian canon as well as to the formation of readers and democratization of literacy. Finally, we analyze the case of a frequent writer of textbooks, Stanislaw Ponte Preta, that, having authored critical texts against the Brazilian dictatorship, was represented at the school just as the author of humorous texts.
school reading; dictatorship; Portuguese textbooks; Stanislaw Ponte Preta
