Práticas intermidiáticas na literatura surda contemporânea: análise dos elementos verbais e não verbais de uma videoperformance.

Abstract

In contemporary times, there has been an increase in the production of literary works that combine or juxtapose verbal signs, still or moving images, and sounds. This phenomenon manifests, for example, itself in the complex articulations between verbal signs, photographs, and collages on the pages of poetic and fictional works; in the graphic manipulations present in many publications; in the exploration of the plasticity and interactivity of digital devices; as well as in the various forms of intersemiotic translation, intermedial transposition, and performance of the literary text. From this perspective, Deaf Literature constitutes an aesthetic-creative field likewise grounded in intermedial practices, whether through the articulation of languages of different modalities or through the integration of media and signs by means of technological techniques and strategies (Sutton-Spence, 2021). Based on these considerations, this study sought, through the analytical exercise of close reading (Durão, 2020), to examine how verbal and nonverbal signs are articulated and how they result in the literary realization of a work in Visual Vernacular (Ramos; Abrahão, 2018), characterized as a video performance (Ramos; Muniz, 2024). The results demonstrate that the creative use of Libras (Brazilian Sign Language) and the construction of visual referents—through the articulation of verbal and nonverbal language—when anchored in digital tools, intensify the visuality of the work and contribute significantly to meaning-making and to the signed literary experience.