Representações de mulheres indígenas em quadrinhos: identidades imaginárias

Abstract

This research seeks to investigate the representation of indigenous women in comic books, through narratives and images produced by Brazilian, Peruvian and Italian authors in the last two decades. Its textual corpus are the comic strips: Encantarias: a lenda da noite (2005), by Volney Nazareno, Fernando Carvalho, Otoniel Oliveira, Julião Cristo, Aline Coelho, João Silveira, Ivani Oliveira and Roberto Zaluth; Ayar, la leyenda de los Incas (2014), by Óscar Barriga, Virginia Borja, Kaimer Dolmos, Erly Almanza and Christian Ramos; and Tex Willer (2006), by Giovanni Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Gallepini. The theoretical and reflective analyses of the magazines will be carried out based on the proposed concept of transculturation, by the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, in his work Contrapunteo cubano del azúcar del tabaco (1940), and the Uruguayan Ángel Rama, from his work Transculturación narrativa en América Latina (2004), as they are essential authors to reflect on the production of the indigenous imaginary on the continent. Our hypothesis is to try to show how the publication of comic books contributes to the imaginary construction, as well as puts into circulation different discourses about what it is to be a woman and an indigenous person in the narratives of each magazine under analysis.