Zaíta forgot to put her toys – the journey of stray bullets: the dialogue between the news and the literary story

Abstract

This article aims to promote reflections on the intertextual elements that dialogue thematically and influence the construction of the fictional project of the short story “Zaíta forgot to save the toys” by the author Conceição Evaristo, coming from the news genre. To do so, we use the analysis of the short story in dialogue with the theme evidenced in newspaper reports circumscribed to events caused by stray bullets. Through a qualitative approach and theoretical-analytical-comparative methodology, the objective is to propose a model of reading about the intertextual relationship between the news and the literary tale, considering their converging aspects (unit, means of origin) and divergent in which refers to the order, objectivity and language used in the way of portraying reality and discussing, through dialogue between textual genres the aspects that mobilized writing aimed at the childish universe and innocence in the violent context of the periphery.