DARWIN IN BRAZIL: SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION IN THE FORM OF COMICS

This article aims to analyze the comic book “Darwin: no Brasil”. The magazine in question is a comic approach that aims to show children and teenagers some ideas about the naturalist and his journey in Brazil of the 19th century. In the work analyzed, the serious figure takes on a different version...

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Published in:Educação em revista 2024, Vol.40
Main Authors: ALMEIDA, SHEILA ALVES DE, VIEIRA, JOSÉ JOÃO, ALMEIDA, PHILIPPE OLIVEIRA DE
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Language:English
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Summary:This article aims to analyze the comic book “Darwin: no Brasil”. The magazine in question is a comic approach that aims to show children and teenagers some ideas about the naturalist and his journey in Brazil of the 19th century. In the work analyzed, the serious figure takes on a different version of most materials, with a profusion of colors printed on paper with a higher quality than that of comic books. It is not easily found on magazine stands, but rather in physical and virtual bookstores. For the analysis of the magazine, some pages were investigated with the purpose of indicating how the comic artist uses visual resources in combination with verbal language, and how they complement each other, contributing to the propagation of the scientific message. The results indicated the complexity of disseminating scientific knowledge in a compact verbal-visual format. As a strategy to communicate the naturalist's journey to readers, the author created a narrative with a visual and linguistic nature in the comics. The attempt to present scientific questions in comics fulfilled the purpose of conveying part of Darwin's story in Brazil, exploring the emotions, but did not provoke reflections, possibly due to the author's intentions in discussing the issues of slavery as well as Darwin's view of the Brazilian society at the time. However, the reflections presented should not be seen as a rejection to the work “Darwin in Brazil”, but as a precaution for those who make the material available to children and adolescents. RESUMO: O presente artigo analisa a revista em quadrinhos “Darwin: no Brasil”, cujo propósito é mostrar às crianças e adolescentes algumas ideias do naturalista, e sua jornada pelo Brasil do século XIX. Para tanto, procuramos neste trabalho responder à seguinte questão: como o texto verbo-visual dos quadrinhos conduz o leitor a compreender a representação do cientista e de seu trabalho, suas observações sobre a sociedade brasileira, bem como a importância da sua viagem ao Brasil para a construção de sua teoria? Considerando que o gênero de divulgação científica apresenta um conjunto de convenções socialmente assumidas, investigamos o dialogismo depreendido da articulação verbo-visual de uma revista produzida por um quadrinista que não apresenta uma trajetória como divulgador científico. Buscamos evidenciar pontos de convergência e divergência entre o texto verbo-visual, quanto aos aspectos da estrutura e do funcionamento comunicativo da revista co
ISSN:0102-4698
1982-6621
DOI:10.1590/0102-4698-48862t