Banca de DEFESA: Letícia Veiga Castello Branco

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Letícia Veiga Castello Branco
DATE: 22/12/2023
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Sala 37 IL
TITLE:

A new ninja way: love relationships and masculinity’s construction in Naruto

 

KEY WORDS:

Naruto; manga; masculinity; love; friendship

PAGES: 120
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

Manga is an expanding genre, mostly due to people’s interest in Asia’s pop culture. In this scenery, Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto stands out, published during 1999 and 2014, the series came to an end with 72 volumes. This manga has an iconic character who battles to protect his friends. It is a narrative targeted towards the male audience with epic fights, but it also chooses to go over the path of love, breaking hegemonic masculinity (Bento, 2015) stereotypes. The plot’s love is built through family relationships and maintenance of friendship bonds, as antidotes against solitude. This paper analyzes characters who interact with the main character and give purpose to his life. In the beginning is discussed the notion of brotherhood’s love and non-biological fatherly figure, by his teachers Iruka and Jiraya. Afterwards, we bring back his mother and father figures to understand his sense of duty and feeling demonstration. By the end we investigate the importance of friendship, by seeing Naruto’s confrontation with his antagonist, Sasuke, along violent scenes crossed by warmhearted dialogues. In conclusion, we analyze the non-hegemonic masculinity of a character who chooses to demonstrate his feelings in a hostile environment, discussing the influence of this representation on young readers, especially on how they recreate and attribute new meanings to Naruto’s story.

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