Percurso discursivo da Mulher-Maravilha: relações dialógicas com os discursos feministas

Abstract

This paper aims to study the discursive changes in the stories of Wonder Woman, precisely its anthology organized by George Pérez and distributed by Panini Comics, composed of eighteen volumes, which belongs to the DC Comics Thematic Universe. To identify the differences and similarities in such narratives among publications of different decades and reflect on their occurrences, we will use, as a category of analysis, the dialogical phenomenon of language - proposed by Bakhtin and the circle. From the perspective that discourses dialogue with each other and with society's experiences, thoughts and problems, we decided that the analysis of such modifications would focus on female issues, whose reflections refer to feminist discourses. Thus, we intend to discuss the following problem: how the comics of Wonder Woman, which is one of the main feminine representatives of the genre, establish dialogic relationships with discourses pertinent to female and feminist movement itself and if these relations continually occur favorable to feminism. To substantiate such discussions concerning dialogism and other concepts aligned, we use the postulates of Bakhtin (2015, 2016, 2018), Volóchinov (2018, 2019) and Brazilian commentators of the circle writings. We also use the postulates of comics researchers, as well as the elements that constitute them and make them unique, such as Groensteen (2015), Barbieri (2017), Ramos (2010) and Wergueiro (2010). About the studies on the female gender, we based our analysis on the formulations of Bandeira and Siqueira (1997), Goldberg-Salinas (1997), Lerner (2019, 2022), Wolf (2020), Miguel and Biroli (2014), Menezes and Bragaglia (2017), among others. Through the dialogue between these three areas of study – discourse and interaction, comics and gender issues –, w e aim to relate the discursive changes in Wonder Woman's comics, as well as the compositional elements and the language of such narratives over the last decades, to discussions and claims proposed by the feminist movement, as the result of the dialogical relations they establish between them. For this, we have elaborated a qualitative research whose data collection is bibliographic and documentary. In addition, we clipped among the eighteen volumes that make up the corpus to analyze those whose modifications were more significant to the character and his narrative and discuss Diana's relationships with alternative versions of Wonder Woman. We conclude, therefore, dialogically analyzing the discourses, that the presence of discourses and discussions in such narratives related to the female genre became more frequent and evident, as they were also present in the feminist movement, as a way for these comics to incorporate the changes pertinent to the female experiences, the symbolic construct they represent.