Literature as a mechanism for the legal effectiveness of the human rights

Abstract

This article intends to discuss a proposal for the redefinition of Human Rights through the intersection between Law and Literature, starting from its role as a social transformation agent. The theme importance is based on the fact of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has an educational character, reflected in the Common National Curriculum Base. Thus, Literature is presented as a legal resource to try to respond social ills through cultural change through its decoding process and fundamental role in the construction of the individual's personality that can cause positive effects on Human Rights effectiveness. Its objective is to connect the Human Rights effectiveness with the Literature teaching, that can instill in the individual a culture of respect for these rights, and correlating the Common National Curriculum Base with this process of effectiveness and, finally, outlining the process of reframing the Rights Humans through an analysis of the literary work Vidas Secas by Graciliano Ramos. The present work was built through a qualitative bibliographic review of authors from the areas of Law, Legal Sociology, Theory of Literature, Discourse Analysis and Educational Psychology, with the methodology being the deductive approach. It is concluded that Literature is a means of reflection and critical exercise, as it confronts the reader through a questioning process, and as it is capable of instilling in the individual a world understanding, allied to Law, it becomes a reinterpretation tool through subject comparison, and it soon assumes an indispensable role in the realization of Human Rights.