Um olhar para a personagem Rosângela da Graphic Novel Talco de Vidro: Uma (des)construção de identidade

Abstract

This paper aims to demonstrate the elements and situations that led to the transformations in the life of the character Rosângela, from the comic book called “Talco de Vidro”, making her question the role of her family and other people around her as the cause of such transformations, leading her to face an unimaginable identity crisis. The character fluctuates between several psychological layers which were determinant to our research; therefore, we aimed to demonstrate, through the contribution of authors such as Erving Goffman and George H. Mead, amongst others – who deal with the theme of social identity –, how the character’s identity is affected during her trajectory in her relations and interactions with other characters, forcing her to face the emergence of her double, as it happens as well in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, configured as an element of fundamental importance on the changes and abysses which mark the protagonist. Thus, the reading of this comic book has provided an immersion in the character’s psyche, as it was possible to express the complexity and ambiguity of her thoughts and behavior, bringing her identity (de)construction to the surface.