O recurso audiovisual em narrativas eletrônicas: os casos de Cityfish, de J.R. Carpenter e Book of Roofs, de Josely Carvalho

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze electronic narratives which use the audiovisual resource in their structure. Therefore, we take advange as an analytical corpus two literary productions: Cityfish, by the Canadian writer J.R. Carpenter and Book of Roofs, by the Brazilian multimedia artist Josely Carvalho. In this work we discuss the concept of autonomy of the user as a reader and also in the authorship position. The creator of an electronic narrative is allowed to benefit from many resources beyond verbal language, which expands the range of discursive possibilities. We observed that in the analyzed productions, videos are produced differently: In the case of Carpenter, the author explores dioramas and images captured in real places which are visited by the protagonist Lynne. In Carvalho's narrative, in turn, the imagery resources are generated by computer graphics, making it possible for an audiovisual production work as the media support of the narrative. Finally, the concepts of in-between, diasporic people and multiterritoriality are related to the analysis of the electronic narratives, as the represented individuals and some characters might be categorized as "ex-centric" and migrants, because they walk and live in many environments, experiencing the pleasures and disappointments to be free and moving. The theoretical corpus is based on George Landow, Pierre Levý, Manuel Castells, Espen Aarseth, Michel Foucault, Julio Plaza, Nestor Canclini, Lucia Santaella, Stuart Hall, Linda Hutcheon, Homi K. Bhabha, and others.