O Afrofuturismo na Adaptação Sequencial de Kindred (2017)

Carlos Eduardo de Araujo Placido; Nataniel dos Santos Gomes

doi:10.5433/2237-4876.2024v27n2p14-26

Authors

Carlos Eduardo de Araujo Placido Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4745-3600
Nataniel dos Santos Gomes Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3911-1552

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2024v27n2p14-26

Keywords:

Afrofuturism, Comics, Kindred (2017)

Abstract

The sequential adaptation Kindred (2017) narrates the experiences of the protagonist, Dana, facing slavery and racism, during her various travels through time in 19th century Maryland, in the United States of America. This comic book is an adaptation of the eponymous Afrofuturistic novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler from 1979, by cartoonists Damian Duffy and John Jennings. Through intersectional representations between gender, power, and race, they more vividly illustrate the violence faced by Dana on an ancient Antebellum plantation. Therefore, the objectives of this research were to identify the main Afrofuturistic elements applied in the adaptation and verify how sequential resources were used both to intensify the reader's experience and to promote a more reliable adaptation (Cartmell, 1999). Through deconstructivist methodology (Derrida, 2010; Evans, 2020; Shaikh, 2022), we identify a profound revisionism concerning the relationships between gender, power, and race. Consequently, this revisionism has been proven in a multitude of sequential representations of historical reinterpretations, reconstructions, and reconciliations. These cartoonists do not suggest forgetting the past but understanding it as an hodiernal entity.

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Author Biographies

Carlos Eduardo de Araujo Placido, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul

PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English from the University of São Paulo (USP). MA in Literature Studies from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR). BA in Portuguese/English Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP). I am currently an adjunct professor of English-language literatures at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). My area of research focuses on creative, linguistic and literary studies in the English language, particularly in the United States of America. I am also the coordinator of the Academic and Creative Literacy Laboratory (LALAEC) at UFMS. The function of LALAEC is to help develop scientific and creative writing in English. My areas of research interest are: cinemas, fairy tales, creative writing, comics, mythologies, theaters and video games. I am also a researcher associated with ASPAS (Association of Researchers in Sequential Art) and ABRAPT (Brazilian Association of Researchers in Translation). ceplacido@gmail.com

Nataniel dos Santos Gomes, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul

He has a degree in Letters (Portuguese / Literature) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1996), a master's degree in Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2002) and a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2007), post-doctorate in Portuguese Language at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2019). He is a professor in the undergraduate and graduate programs (Academic Master's in Letters and Professional Master's in Letters) at the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS) in Campo Grande. She has experience in Linguistics, with an emphasis on Linguistic Theory and Analysis, working mainly on the following subjects: linguistic description, Brazilian indigenous languages, weblinguagem and comic strips. She is the leader of the Comics Research Center (NuPeQ) and the Indigenous Languages Center of Mato Grosso do Sul (NuLIMS), and vice-leader of the Semiotics, Reading and Text Production Group (SELEPROT-UERJ). Member of the Fluminense Circle of Philological and Linguistic Studies (CiFEFiL) and director of the Association of Researchers in Sequential Art (ASPAS). Author of numerous articles and more than 40 books. nataniel@uems.br

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