Narrativas de dor: a memória traumática da vítima de violência sexual na HQ autobiográfica Desconstruindo Una

Abstract

Reconstructing traumas, memories and the past is the same as gathering reflections of memories to compose a mosaic, or pictures. In cases involving violence and traumatic processes, comic narratives can even be an option for those who cannot recall memories and narrate a lived event by speaking or writing. And this is exactly the situation of Una, in the autobiographical graphic novel Deconstruindo Una. In the work, the character goes through sexual abuse in childhood and lives a trauma process caused by what behaviorally blames the victim. It is through the comics that she manages to witness everything she experienced during and after the rapes. This research aims to analyze the narrative resources used in Desconstruindo Una to break the silence, express the traumatic memory and tell about experiences involving sexual abuse. For this, the methodology proposed by Luiz Gonzaga Motta (2013) in the work Critical Analysis of the Narrative was used. The researcher proposes seven movements for analyzing a narrative. Through this methodology, it was possible to identify several strategies that the author used to remember her trauma and validate her speech as markers of time and space, effects of reality and tension in key conflicts for the plot.