Since its implementation in the colonial period, Brazilian Education has supported teaching-
learning articulated with guidelines from multilateral organisms, thus maintaining the
Coloniality of Power, of being and of knowledge, strengthening neoliberal capitalism. In this
sense, the core of this study is to be an alternative against this Coloniality through the teaching-
learning of political literacy through literary readings. This practice will enable the formation
of critical consciousness, in the sense of decolonizing thought in an attempt to disarticulate the
Coloniality of Power, of being and of knowledge. Our guiding question is: can literature be
an agency for teaching political literacy? In this vein, this research has as a general objective
to investigate what are the contributions of literature to the teaching and learning of
political literacy. The specific objectives are: to ascertain whether a link between literature and
politics is possible; describe how literature can represent a link between the reader and the
implementation of democracy; demonstrate that some literary works with their political
discourse represent a possibility to the practice of political literacy; analyze the importance of
literary reading for the understanding and learning of other knowledges; demonstrate that both
literature and politics are intrinsically present in life; to analyze the importance of critical
thinking in the deconstruction of the hegemony of power of multilateral organisms. Therefore,
it will be demonstrated that it is possible to practice teaching-learning with political literacy
through literary readings, to disarticulate the Coloniality of Power and its oppressive axes,
which are: racism, the control of the economy, politics, authority, natural wealth, gender and
sexuality, subjectivity and knowledge. The study on the teaching of political literacy through
literature will be from the perspective of the Decoloniality of Power and Transmodernity.
Regarding the Decoloniality of Power, it refers to the dialogue with various theories such as:
Post-Colonialism, Coloniality of Power, Decoloniality and Liberation Theory according to
Paulo Freire. Transmodernity is related to thinking beyond the concept of Modernity/Post-
Modernity. As the study is Inter/Transdisciplinary and based on a democratic approach that
considers the view of opposites, the various theories mentioned above were embraced, in the
sense of building a different logic of thinking about teaching and learning. This research will
be bibliographical with a dialectical method and a qualitative approach. That way, the
instruments for this research will be books, scientific articles, dissertations or theses. Thus, we
have as a central point to bring to light, through bibliographic research, a new way of thinking
about teaching-learning with a pedagogical proposal of teaching political literacy through
literary readings discussed in conversation circles together with the school community and
political or communitarian leaders in order to obtain results both in the formation of the literary
reader and in the appropriation and empowerment of political knowledge.
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