The analysis of the monster image and social identity in the comic book Cansei de ser monstro

Abstract

It aims at identifying the concepts of identity and social representation in the qualification of beings, based on studies focused on discourse analysis and supported by written work on the Semiolinguistic field about social identity, stereotypes and image construction through observation of the visual text, besides references on multimodality and iconotext - concepts that refer to, respectively, the interaction of two or more semiosis in a linguistic staging and the result derived from the relation between words and illustrations -, considering different elements which are characteristic of comic books. The piece used as corpus is Cansei de ser monstro, published in 2021, written by Guilherme de Souza and Illustrated by Thaís Leal, about a monster that invades a boy’s room with the intention of devouring him, but thst befriends him. The piece also constructs meaning effects through patemization, making the reader feel something, joking about the main theme of the story. Among the authors serving as theoretical support are Patrick Charaudeau, Ruth Amossy, Beatriz Feres, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Antonio Vicente Pietroforte, and Barbara Postema.