Identidades secretas: representações do negro nas Histórias em quadrinhos norte-americanas

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Romildo Sergio [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123697; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/28-05-2015/000819160.pdf
• topic: Histórias em quadrinhos; Negros; Identidade; Comunicação; Comic books, strips, etc

Thinking of the comicsas a vehicle of mass communication, whose modern history crossed through all twentieth century until contemporary times, keeping his language almost unchanged, it is possible to infer about the great strength of the medium and, consequently, the large impacts of the representations it creates and circulates through society by then. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the identities of the black American in the comics of Marvel Comics, published in Brazil. We have as hypothesis, how such representations can create identification with models of conformity or reinforce prejudicies through the classic stereotypes of racional minority in the United States. We have applied as methodology a junction of two fields; a Pierce's semiotic matrix, as a research technique to reveal the representations and their arguments, as well as sociology, which drew on the notions of culture and identity explored by Stuart Hall and Anthony Giddens for analysis of results. The samples comes from Marvel Comics magazines published by Panini, in the period from July 1 to December, 2011, in a collection purchased at news stands and specialized shops. Totaling 76 magazines, with 252 analyzed stories which form identified significant shareholdings of 1370 characters, among these only 75, or 5,47% were managed by blacks, demonstrating a low representation. This percentage is actually the remnant which is the research corpus. 16 black important chacters were identified, those would be grouped into five possible models of identities many of them are related to other fields such as cinema and music. As a whole, we can say thay the two characters that are compared to positive models and are more polyphonic, are Storm and Luke Cage. However, the low representativeness and excess characterization make comics analyzed at, a very fertile field identification by the Brazilian public