Narrativas da literatura surda brasileira: estudo e análise de gênero literários sinalizados disponibilizados no youtube entre os anos de 2007 e 2019.

Abstract

Deaf Literature is the literary manifestation of the deaf. By comprehending the importance of Deaf Literature in social and academical contexts, we decided to assume signed narrative literary genres as our object of study. Our main objective is to identify the structural, textual and aesthetic elements presented in Brazilian literary narratives from deaf authorship which were uploaded on YouTube between 2007 and 2019. Our specific aims are: a) to define guiding criteria to catalogue the signed literary narratives; b) to stablish categories to analyze the catalogued texts; c) to build an infographic in which allows to present, briefly and pedagogically, the concepts and categories of analysis which constitute our research, aiming to collaborate with the teaching-learning process of Deaf Literature. Methodologically, this research, according to Gil (2008), which is exploratory and descriptive, searched for signed narrative texts. These texts were selected considering four criteria: 1) Signed productions of deaf Brazilian authors; 2) Texts presented on YouTube and which were uploaded between 2007 and 2019; 3) Texts with a narrative structure; 4) Literary texts. After collecting the texts, we defined the categories which would be used to handle the data: Structure, Characterized elements of each genre; Aesthetic/literary elements. Once we defined the categories, the analysis followed the stages: 1) Identification: in which we observed if the selected texts have the basic structural elements of a narrative; 2) Definition: we examined and justified to which narrative genre the analyzed text belong to; and finally, 3) Verification: here we identified if the analyzed text has visual/aesthetical elements common to literary signed texts. Our theoretical basis was concentrated in Candido (1995), to reflect about the humanizing role of literature and the right everyone should have of accessing it; in Candido (2011), who proposes a national literary system, which motivated us to try contributing somehow with the process of systematization that Deaf Literature and Libras Literature is experimenting in the recent years; in D’Onofrio (1993) and Soares (2005) to comprehend how the narrative texts are constituted from a structural perspective, as well as to understand how the historical overview around the concept of literary genre we know today was built; in Mourão (2013), Sutton-Spence and Kaneko (2016); Sutton-Spence (2021) to identify aesthetic and literary elements which constitute signed literary narratives, as well as to identify the place these productions occupy within the deaf community. The results of this research point to the fact that, despite the literary productions cannot be seen and comprehended as a part of fixed and unchangeable genre structures, its systematization might help the reader/researcher to find ways that enable them look at these works not only to their appreciation, but to find possibilities that allow them to consider these productions as study and research object. Hence this look might contribute and add with the process of systematization and analysis of literary signed texts, that have been constituted in the last years.