Poesia surda: contextos artísticos do slam na comunidade surda

Abstract

Deaf Literature, especially deaf poetry, is the focus of this work. This literature as an artistic manifestation of the deaf community and the deaf person, over the years, shows various deaf visual experiences, their social relations and creations in sign languages. Thus, it focuses on the poetic and performative productions of the Slams and how this literary style has integrated and changed in deaf communities. For this, it addresses cultural, social and literary aspects with a bibliographic study on Deaf Literature, based on the authors Karnopp (2008), Mourão (2012), Sutton-Spence and Quadros (2006) and on recent discussions on the Slam, Neves (2017) and D'Alva (2015). He also complements these studies by interviewing the deaf slamer Leonardo Castilho and reports the experience of the deaf community of Tocantins with a Slam. As a result, it is understood that Slam has become a new form of poetic expression of the entire Brazilian deaf community in different spaces.