Margem à mostra: limiares narrativos em Suzy Lee e Angela Lago

Abstract

The present study aims to reflect about the narrative border in the works Shadow (2010), by the South Korean Suzy Lee, and O cântico dos cânticos (1992), by the Brazilian Angela Lago. Our main purpose is to contribute to studies on children’s literature’s theory and criticism, pointing out how the authors broaden up the interpretative potential for their picture-books, in its materiality and visuality, by exploring the use of the codex’s borders as structures for pictorial narratives. In addition to the theory focused on the specific critics of literature for children and young adults (Sarah Dowhower, Maria Nikolajeva, Sophie Van der Linden, Maria José Palo) and the studies on the book as an art form (Julio Plaza, Johanna Drucker, Maria do Carmo de Freitas Veneroso, Paulo Silveira), bibliographies on the concepts of the binding fold dialectics (Michel Melot) and the threshold (Walter Benjamin, Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, Georges Didi-Huberman) are also mobilized. This passage from literary criticism to the artistic philosophy about the book as an object, culminating in the interdisciplinarity of literature and art criticism, aims to re-present and re-know this artistic phenomenon, the picture-book, in the potential of its hybridity, occupying a threshold space between artist’s books and children’s books