Encruzilhada: uma história em quadrinhos sobre as vivências das pessoas negras no Brasil contemporâneo

Abstract

The artistic productions of testimony and testimonial content gained notoriety in the second half of the 20th century as a way of reflecting on the traumatic experiences arising from that period. In this sense, it is intended to analyze, in this article, the comic book production Encruzilhada (2011, 2016), by Marcelo D’Salete, as an artistic product of testimonial content that dealt with the experiences that cross the lives of black people living on the outskirts. As it is produced from experiences that are common to a community, the comic book can also be understood as a comic book of denunciation capable of reworking, as a testimony, the reality of violence and racism that threatens the lives of black women and men in contemporary Brazil.