Poesia em língua de sinais: caminhos teóricos e críticos

Abstract

Sign language poetry, the result of cultural and artistic manifestations of deaf communities, is usually theorized and analyzed from different perspectives such as those of cultural and linguistic studies. We advocate adding to these discussions, without valuing or underestimating, the aesthetic aspects of literary studies, especially those related to modern and contemporary poetry. Thus, from bibliographic reviews involving Cultural Studies, Deaf Studies and Literary Studies, especially researchers such as Silveira and Karnopp (2014), Sutton-Spence (2005) and Morgado (2011a), we investigate a new approach to theory and literary criticism for poetry in signs. To this end, we discuss some poetic forms in Libras, Brazilian Sign Language, question and propose terminologies and analyze cultural and artistic elements perceived in the selected poems. We defined as corpus of this research a poem in free profile, two ABC Poems and Numbers and five Haikus. From the analysis of those referred, we arrived at the formulation of some theoretical aspects, such as poetic profiles and literary subjects, the evidence of certain aesthetic elements typical of sign language poetry, such as sign-art, and the need for further investigations involving other areas of literature.