Jornalismo literário no jornalismo em quadrinhos: uma leitura de Pyongyang, de Guy Delisle

Abstract

The main objective of this dissertation was to explore the possible connections and proximities between comics journalism and literary journalism, also observing the particularities of this hybrid genre and showing its distance from conventional journalism. To this end, the research was based on the reading of the comic book Pyongyang, by Guy Delisle (2007), from the theoretical perspective of journalism researchers – Beltrão (1960), Dutra (2003) –, that help to understand journalism as a whole, its conceptions and basic characteristics; of literary journalism – Lima (2009), Valim (2016), Pena (2007; 2009) and Necchi (2009) –, fundamental for understanding what literary journalism is and under which concepts the genre is maintained; in addition to comics researchers, such as Cagnin (2014) and Barbieri (2017), whose works help in the design of comics in their various properties, being also essential for reading the proposed work. In its specific objectives, the research sought to a) contextualize and problematize literary journalism; b) discuss the place of comics in the universe of literary journalism and; c) analyze the book Pyongyang in this context of literary journalism in comics. The research objectives were achieved through research and qualitative reading of the bibliographies of researchers and authors of literary journalism and comics journalism, and it was thus proven that comics journalism does not find the necessary space in conventional journalism, which, due to its objective and factual character, cannot provide the time and space required by works of this nature. It was also verified that the hybridity of literary journalism and journalism in comics format allows the adaptation and integration of other genres, languages and formats, creating new products that, in turn, are also hybrids.