A jovem mulher Marfinense dos anos 1970: um estudo da personagem Aya do Romance Gráfico Aya de Yopougon.

Abstract

With the advancement of the feminist struggle and critique in line with the social movement, we have increasingly seen women producing graphic novels. Women have found in the colorful pages of graphic novels a way of showing resistance to patriarchy and women's empowerment, as a way to be aware of their condition. African authors such as Marguerite Abouet have dedicated themselves to the deconstruction of the image about Africa and the empowerment of young girls about the female voice strength in the deconstruction of stereotypes about Africa, their own body and life. Therefore, we have as a research question the following: how is the thinking of the young Ivorian woman of the 1970s built on the character Aya from the graphic novel Aya de Yopougon? To answer this question, we list as a general objective of this research to analyze social and behavioral aspects that characterize the thinking of the young Ivorian woman of the 1970s, and to observe how it is built in the character Aya in the graphic novel Aya de Yopougon- volumes 1 to 3, and as specific objectives we have: to study the graphic novel, by checking features that may be read as a literary work; to weave considerations about the female character in African children's literature and to identify cultural issues that the character Aya highlights, as well as her views about them. In order to achieve the objectives above, we rely on previous studies by Zappone and Wielewicki (2005); Cagnin (1975); Dürrenmatt (2013) Huannou (2001); Moses (2006). Brait (1999); Boni (2011); Chevrier (1999); Zolin (2009), among others. The corpus of the research is composed of the first three volumes of the graphic novel Aya de Yopougon and our research is characterized as qualitative research, and has traces of descriptive, exploratory and bibliographic research. Our results show that the graphic novel is a promising genre in the deconstruction of stereotypes about Africa and African women and that this work is representative of the 1970 discourse.