Caracterização das pesquisas brasileiras sobre mangá: um recorte a partir das teses e dissertações

Abstract

This monograph seeks to characterize research at postgraduate level on the subject of 'manga' in Brazil, by creating a corpus containing theses and dissertations extracted from Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD) within the established theme and analyzing it. The findings indicate that studies on manga come predominantly from the humanities, particularly in the fields of literature and history, implying that manga is often approached from a literary, linguistic, cultural or historical perspective. The analysis of the documents revealed that the theses and dissertations approach the subject of manga in three different ways: using works of manga literature as the primary objects of study; examining the phenomenon of manga itself; or using manga as a tool for analyzing other cultural or social phenomena, often with a secondary role in the research. It also shows that research is concentrated mainly in the south-east and south, and to a lesser extent in the north-east of the country, while showing the absence of research in the other regions of the country. The analysis concludes that there is a general shyness among researchers in relation to the exploration of manga literature, including research in the field of Library and Information Science, which may be the result of a lack of knowledge about manga and the limited accessibility of the product in Brazil in a legal way, motivated by the high costs and limited availability of manga compared to Japan.