Quadrinhos Periféricos: o direito à cidade em Crianças Selvagens e Para Todos os Tipos de Vermes.

Abstract

On this research, the Peripheral Comics concept was proposed and the comic books Crianças Selvagens (2020), by Gabú, and Para Todos os Tipos de Vermes (2020), by Kione Ayo, both launched in the Editora Mino’s Narrativas Periféricas Project first edition, were analyzed. Thus, the question that guided the analyses was: “How do Peripheral Comics elucidate the spatial and symbolic segregation resulting from the cities territorial organization?”. In order to answer such problematization, this study’s purpose was to investigate how the characters territorial belonging influences the plot and reveals the struggle for the right to the city. Hence, this is a basic, qualitative and descriptive research, in which the corpus was analyzed through the epistemological basis of dialectical materialism. Furthermore, the main theoretical references used throughout the research were social and historical studies that deal with the formation of the favelas, such as those by Valladares (2005), Nascimento (1978) and Berth (2023), the analysis of coloniality proposed by Quijano (2005), researches who approach Black Literature and Peripheral Literature, such as Evaristo (2009), Ferréz (2005), Vaz (2007) and Arias (2011), the panorama of black characters in Brazilian comics carried out by Chinen (2019) and, finally, the contributions of Groensteen (2015) and Postema (2018) to the study of comics as an autonomous language. Based on the bibliographical research and on the corpus analysis, we concluded that Gabú’s and Ayo’s works portray cities as the colonizing process continuity and points to the need to think about decolonial cities conceptions.