FROM SHORT STORIES TO COMICS: A PROPOSAL FOR LITERARY LITERACY AND INTERSEMIOTIC TRANSLATION BASED ON THE SHORT STORY "MARIA", BY CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO

Abstract

The present work aims to present a proposal for literary literacy for elementary school based on intersemiotic translation through the reading of short stories and the production of comic books. Thus, in this study, we propose a didactic experience to be lived with elementary school classes, especially with students from the 8th and 9th grades, observing the relationship between the reading/reception of the literary text and the comics produced by the students as a form of interpretation and translation of the short story "Maria", by Conceição Evaristo (2014). To this end, we take the opportunity to discuss concepts inherent to intersemiotic translation and the language of comics and their contributions to the formation of the critical reader in school. This work is qualitative and of a basic-propositional nature, characterized by using the workshop cycle as a methodological apparatus for the proposition of classes. To support our didactic proposal, we bring as a theoretical framework, mainly, the studies of Santaella and Nöth (2001) and Borba (2020), regarding intersemiotic translation, and Ramos (2019), Santos and Vergueiro (2012) and Assis and Marinho (2016), regarding the language of comics and the teaching of comics in the classroom. We hope that the didactic proposal presented in this work will contribute to the expansion of the students' reading repertoire, to the improvement of reading skills and interpretation of literary texts in the classroom, to the encouragement of imaginative creativity and to the formation of critical readers.