Banca de DEFESA: ROSECLEIDE FERREIRA BORGES RODRIGUES

Deaf literature: the marked poetic construction by Yanna Porcino

Deaf literature, Brazilian Sign Language, poems , aesthetics building, Yanna Porcino.

The deaf community has expressed its culture and language through literary productions in a poetic manner. Thus, the productions of black authors intersect aspects related to race and gender, fields that affect women's experiences. This dissertation sought to explore how the poetic text in a language with a visual-spatial modality brings the visuality of an aesthetic built on the plasticity of a signed language, having the author's body as a support for the texture of the text and which aspects these texts cover. The research problem that accompanied the development of the investigation was: which aesthetic elements make up the signaled poetics? What do these poems say and how they say? Based on these questions, the objective is to understand the aspects present in the highlighted poems written by Yanna Porcino. The methodology used to develop the research consisted of a descriptive analysis, considering the aesthetic elements described by Sutton-Spence (2021), the theme and the performative aspects in the highlighted poems. Three poems by Yanna Porcino were analyzed: "Who cares" (Porcino, 2020), "Ingenuity" (Porcino, 2021) and "I am different" (Porcino, 2021). The reflections take place in dialogue with the theories of Stuart Hall (2003, 2006) that allow us to understand some aspects of culture; Carlos Skliar (2005), who addresses deafness from a cultural and sociological perspective. We were also guided by the research of some theorists on the linguistic studies of Sign Language, such as Lucinda Ferreira Brito (2010), and Ronice Quadros and Lodenir Karnopp (2007). Furthermore, in our analyzes we consider deaf studies marked by Strobel's (2008) positions on deaf culture and research on deaf literature presented by Lodenir Karnopp (2006, 2008, 2010), Marta Morgado (2011), Cláudio Mourão (2011, 2016) and Sutton-Spence (2005, 2006, 2021). As a result, we conclude that the analyzed poems have mobilized the performative and aesthetic aspects of visual poetics in Brazilian Sign Language, operating in the literary territories of the collective (re)writing experiences and denouncing oppression.