SELF-REFLEXIVE ANTHROPOMORPHISM IN CECE BELL’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMICS: A STUDY OF THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF NARRATIVE LEVELS

Takakura, Sandra Mina

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e87713

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Article • Ilha do Desterro 76 (1) • Jan-Apr 2023 • https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e87713 copy

SELF-REFLEXIVE ANTHROPOMORPHISM IN CECE BELL’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMICS: A STUDY OF THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF NARRATIVE LEVELS

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Abstract

Cece Bell released her autobiographical comic El Deafo (2014) in print and digital versions, transposing herself into the anthropomorphic rabbit Cece, who speaks of her hearing loss experience at four after having contracted meningitis. Young Cece wears a hearing aid on her long rabbit ears, showing her animal, human, and technological hybrid body to others. Nevertheless, she assumes the identity of the superhero “El Deafo,” her alter-ego, to cope with her daily challenges in a community composed mostly of hearing individuals, first as an escape to her imaginary world and later for accepting her identity as deaf. This paper aims to analyse El Deafo as an autobiographical comic, considering the representation of deafness through an unstable hybrid body and a transgression of the narrative levels based on the notion of metalepsis, drawn by Genette, Kukkonen, and Ryan in various media.

Keywords:
autobiographical comics; anthropomorphism; El Deafo; metalepsis; digital comics

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Holds a degree in Portuguese and English Program at the Federal University of Para (2000), a Master’s degree in English and Literature in English at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2003), and a Doctorate in Letters at the University of the State of São Paulo (2019). She currently holds an Adjunct Professor’s position at the Department of Language and Literature at the State University of Para, where she works in the undergraduate course. She supervises research at the undergraduate level in English Program. She has been the leader of the Research Group GFIE (Intermediality and Style Training Group), certified by the Brazilian CNPQ directory, since September 19, 2019. The group’s research is developed following two lines: metaphors and style, and style in literature, art, and media. E-mail: sandraminatakakura@gmail.com Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6882-0174.