CASA DE BONECA: Arte e Decolonialidade

Abstract

This research starts from the doll house toy/object, referring to both a European toy and the stately homes of the city of Belém, to discuss the concepts of epistemicide and coloniality of power as a plan for a violent colonization based on the myth of modernity, culminating in an urbanization that is still praised today, but which cost the destruction of people and knowledge. In the first chapter I talk about the first motivations for working on a theme related to a doll's house. My games with Maria, since she was young, and I discuss the importance of play for children. In the second chapter I deal with a methodological issue, the need to build research based on decolonial thinking. To do this, I try to clarify concepts such as coloniality, colonialism, decolonization and decoloniality. In the third chapter I deal more specifically with the dollhouses that were produced: the first is a replica of the church of Saint Alexandre, representing the role of the church and Christianity in the colonization scheme; the second house is a replica of the Palacete Bolonha, a symbol of the Gomiferous period and the Belle Epoque; the third house is a replica of the mansion where PPGarte operates; and I deal more specifically with the experience of being black at university. In the final considerations I work with the decolonization of curricula. Inserting doll houses in a didactic proposal. Reflecting on the possibility of working with houses in schools based on law 10.639/2003 and law 11.645/08.