Contação de história em Libras para crianças surdas: estudo descritivo dos personagens em “O lobinho bom” no canal do youtube “Mãos aventureiras” de Carolina Hessel.

Abstract

Storytelling for deaf children in Libras has aesthetics as an important characteristic for the creation of the signed narrative, the definition of personification and the performance of the characters. It is worth mentioning that this aesthetic element in Literature in Libras shows the human through incorporation and animals, plants, and inanimate objects through anthropomorphism. Although such strategies are important for signed storytelling, we note that studies that consider the description of the aesthetics of Libras are still incipient. In order to take a closer look at such issues, we outline the following general objective: to describe the element(s) of the aesthetics of Literature in Libras in Carolina Hessel's performance in the telling of the story “The Good Little Wolf”. And, as specific objectives: to identify the elements of the aesthetics of Literature in Libras used by Carolina Hessel in the telling of “The Good Little Wolf” for the performative creation of the characters in the narrative; and to describe the elements identified in the performance for humans and animals. This study was developed with the contribution of the theory on the aesthetics of literature in sign language, having as main references Sutton-Spence (2021) and Sutton-Spence and Kaneko (2016). To reflect on children's literature and storytelling, as part of the development of a practice of contact with children, we studied Zliberman (2012). The investigation is characterized as qualitative research in which we operate with the descriptive method (GIL, 2009) and the construction of the data was based on Bardin's content analysis (1977). At the end of the research, we realized and understood that, in the aesthetics of sign language, incorporation and anthropomorphism, as elements for creating characters, are essential for storytelling in Libras for deaf children.