Arlindo e sua família : uma análise crítica transviada do discurso multimodal sobre identidade, pertencimento e resistência nos quadrinhos de Luiza de Souza

Abstract

This qualitative study analyzes the graphic novel Arlindo (2021) through Critical Discourse Analysis perspective (Fairclough, 1995; 2015 [1989]; Resende; Ramalho, 2006) and the Grammar of Visual Design (Kress; Van Leeuwen, 2020). The aim is to dicuss how multimodal discourses about homosexuality materialized in the graphic novel act on the maintenance or contestation of hegemonies related to sexualities. To this end, we seek to identify how the protagonist and his sexuality are developed in his family environment through discourses and social relations materialized by the verbal (Halliday; Matthiessen, 2004) and visual (Kress; Van Leeuwen, 2020) resources of the familiar´s cut from the work. Furthermore, we try to identify through the concepts of Controlling Images (Bueno, 2020; Collins, 2019), Oppressive Triality (Bezerra, 2023) and Resistance (Foucault, 1979) the existence or not of a complex character development when it comes to his sexual and emotional identity. We perceive through the analysis that the existence of homophobic and misogynist discourses underlying the graphic novel serves as point of discussion in a combative way. The same happens with the presence of the concepts of Controlling Imagens, Oppressive Triality and Resistance also giving this work an unusual complexity in graphic novels aiming the young audience.