Literatura Surda Deaf Literature

Abstract

O objetivo do presente artigo e proceder a uma analise dos livros de literatura infantil Cinderela Surda e Rapunzel Surda, focalizando os sentidos produzidos sobre identidades e diferencas. As analises desses livros pretendem contribuir para a discussao da producao de uma literatura surda, que esta vinculada as discussoes sobre cultura e identidade. Na investigacao desses materiais, os textos e as imagens produzidas evidenciam que os autores buscam o caminho da auto-representacao do grupo de surdos, atraves da luta pelo estabelecimento do que reconhecem como suas identidades e suas diferencas. Tais evidencias estao no uso da lingua de sinais, em suas formas de narrar as historias e/ou de adaptar historias classicas, tendo como base suas formas de existencia, suas formas de ler, traduzir, conceber e julgar os produtos culturais que consomem e que produzem. Palavras-chave Literatura surda; Cultura; Identidade; Lingua de sinais Abstract This article aims to present an analysis of the fairy tales, Deaf Cinderella and Deaf Rapunzel, focusing on the meanings produced from identities and differences. The analyses of these two books intend to give a contribution to the discussion on the production of deaf literature, which is linked to the discussions on culture and identity. In the investigation of these books, the texts and the images produced show that the authors seek the path to self- representation of the deaf community, through the struggle for the establishment of what they recognize as their identities and differences. Such evidences are in the use of sign language, in their ways of narrating their stories and/or of adapting classic fairy tales, having as a basis their existential ways of being, their ways of reading, translating, conceiving and judging the cultural products which they consume and produce. Keywords Deaf literature; Culture; Identity; Sign language