Produções culturais de surdos: análise da literatura surda
Resumo
O presente artigo apresenta dados de pesquisa sobre narrativas e histórias publicadas sobre surdos e a língua de sinais. A análise do registro das histórias pretende contribuir com as discussões referentes à literatura surda, potencializando assim a produção de conhecimentos nessa área. A análise de livros impressos teve como critério a seleção de livros cuja temática fosse a surdez, a língua de sinais e/ou surdos, considerando as publicações a partir de 2000, período em que iniciou também uma ampla movimentação em torno da língua de sinais e da cultura surda no Brasil. Nem todos os livros que apresentam personagens surdos ou que tematizam a surdez fazem parte da literatura surda. O trabalho de análise do registro de histórias verificou que alguns dos livros produzidos referem o uso da língua de sinais, mas descontextualizado do pertencimento a uma comunidade de surdos. Representações de surdos ligadas à ideia de superação ou de compensação da surdez estão presentes em alguns dos materiais analisados. No entanto, outros livros focalizam o uso da língua de sinais por pessoas surdas, o pertencimento cultural, a questão da identidade e da cultura surda, presentes nos textos e/ou nas imagens. Dos materiais analisados, percebe-se que surdos contadores de histórias buscam o caminho da auto-representação na luta pelo estabelecimento do que reconhecem como suas identidades, através da legitimidade de sua língua, de suas formas de narrar as histórias, de suas formas de existência, de suas formas de ler, traduzir, conceber e julgar os produtos culturais que consomem e que produzem.
Palavras-Chave: Libras, Surdos, Cultura Surda, Literatura Surda.
Cultural productions of deaf people: analysis of deaf literature
AbstractThis paper presents research data on narratives and stories published about deaf people and sign language. Analysis of story records aims at contributing to the discussion relative to deaf literature, thus enhancing the potential of knowledge production in this area. Criteria for analysis of printed books was selection of books on deafness, sign language and/or deaf people, considering publications after 2000, period in which there was an intense discussion on sign language and deaf culture in Brazil. Not all books presenting deaf characters or using deafness as main theme belong to deaf literature. Analysis of story records showed that some of the produced books refer to use of sign language, but not within the context of belonging to a deaf community. Representations of deaf people associated with the idea of overcoming or compensating deafness are present in some of the material analyzed. However, other books focus on use of sign language by deaf people, cultural belonging, the issue of deaf identity and culture, present in texts and/or images. From the analyzed material it can be seen that deaf people who are story tellers search for self-representation in their struggle to establish what they recognize as their identities, through legitimacy of their language, forms of narrating stories, forms of existence, forms of reading, translating, conceiving and judging the cultural products they consume and produce.
Key-words: Libras; Deaf People; Deaf Culture; Deaf Literature.
Palavras-Chave: Libras, Surdos, Cultura Surda, Literatura Surda.
Cultural productions of deaf people: analysis of deaf literature
AbstractThis paper presents research data on narratives and stories published about deaf people and sign language. Analysis of story records aims at contributing to the discussion relative to deaf literature, thus enhancing the potential of knowledge production in this area. Criteria for analysis of printed books was selection of books on deafness, sign language and/or deaf people, considering publications after 2000, period in which there was an intense discussion on sign language and deaf culture in Brazil. Not all books presenting deaf characters or using deafness as main theme belong to deaf literature. Analysis of story records showed that some of the produced books refer to use of sign language, but not within the context of belonging to a deaf community. Representations of deaf people associated with the idea of overcoming or compensating deafness are present in some of the material analyzed. However, other books focus on use of sign language by deaf people, cultural belonging, the issue of deaf identity and culture, present in texts and/or images. From the analyzed material it can be seen that deaf people who are story tellers search for self-representation in their struggle to establish what they recognize as their identities, through legitimacy of their language, forms of narrating stories, forms of existence, forms of reading, translating, conceiving and judging the cultural products they consume and produce.
Key-words: Libras; Deaf People; Deaf Culture; Deaf Literature.