A guerra civil espanhola plasmada no filme Los girasoles ciegos: um tema de discussão em sala de aula com alunos avançados de espanhol E/LE

Abstract

The Fourth Colloquium of GEPPELE brings as a theme Pathways to the consolidation of teacher education and Spanish teaching in Brazil. We understand that the reflexive teacher has as his practice the conscious discussion of historical-cultural issues of the Spanish-speaking countries in the classroom, especially with advanced students of Spanish E / LE, who have a higher degree of literacy in the language. The Spanish Civil War, the focal point of this work, was one of the most regrettable chapters in Spanish history. More than eighty years have passed since its inception, and memories of war and postwar are still painful in the discourse of those who suffered directly or indirectly as an event not to be forgotten by the trauma and lesson left behind. Discussions around this war, for example, can be mediated both at school and at university and / or free courses by teachers with their students, in order to bring them closer to the language, its history and culture from another perspective. To exemplify a work that portrays the Spanish Civil War with excellence, we chose the film Los girasoles ciegos, by José Luis Cuerda, based on the book by the same name of Alberto Méndez. Thus, in this bibliographical survey, we firstly present an overview of the circumstances that involved the civil war in Spain; then we analyze the reflection of the consequences of this war in the cinema and, more specifically, in the film The blind sunflowers. To substantiate our arguments, we base ourselves on theoreticians from areas such as MoralMartín (2012), Ramblado-Minero (2007) and Pelaz-López (2011). We conclude that the teacher of Spanish E / LE needs to work with socio-historical-cultural themes that allow discussion in the classroom, especially among advanced level students, in a sedimentation praxis of several orders knowledge, so that students immerse themselves in the history of Spanish-speaking countries so that they can learn the language more comprehensively and more efficiently.