Comic books superheroes and main characters’ daily actions in pandemic times: social representation between fiction and real world
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https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v16i2.5365Keywords:
Comic Books, Fictional Reading and Coronavirus, Reading – Heroes and Main CharactersAbstract
Comic books are a genre and reading format present throughout the world, which convey narratives that can be used for a number of purposes. This research analyzes six images and stories starring superheroes and main comic book characters, produced as a result of the Coronavirus, with the aim of understanding the ways created to inform the preventive care of the Coronavirus. Narratology is used as a method of analyzing images and stories, highlighting the theme, plot, environment and chronological time of the stories, as well as the actions taken by the characters. It is evident that they transmit information consistent with the socio-historical moment caused by the Coronavirus, highlighting people's daily actions, however experienced by the stories’ main characters
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