Estigma e metáfora em Pílulas azuis de Frederik Peeters

Abstract

Considering that HIV/AIDS is a disease still today beset by societal stigmas and prejudices attributed by society, the present work aims to analyze the stigmas, prejudices and metaphors present in the comic autobiography Pílulas Azuis by Frederik Peeters. The methodology applied to the work was bibliographic research and literary analysis. We approach the concepts of graphic memoir and autobiography, based on the authors Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson; we worked on comic book concepts with author Will Eisner; to approach the stigmas present in the narrative, we use the author Lerita M. Coleman, and to work the illness as metaphor we chose the book Illness as metaphor by Susan Sontag. In Pílulas Azuis, the narrator expounds in a sincere and reflective manner all this feelings regarding HIV/AIDS. At certain times, he shows his prejudice about the illness, a reflection of the stigma that resolves around the illness.