Reading of the illustrations of “Barbazul” by Anabella López and the new meanings of this tale in contemporary

Abstract

The present work has as its theme the literary literacy of the illustrated book and the classic or traditional children's tales that are known by children, even before they enter school. The traditional tales were compiled by writers such as Perrault, The Brothers Grimm and Andersen, who became popularly known as authors of stories for children. Currently, there is a return to these tales that are recreated according to the questions of society and the ideals of a critical and emancipatory reading formation. Thus, the objective in this work was to analyze the illustrations of the work “Barbazul” (2017) by Anabella López, interpreting the choices made by the author/illustrator, in order to identify how she creates new meanings for this tale originally written by Perrault. For this, a literary review was carried out on the primordial narratives, on the historical context in which the story of "Barba Azul" was created and on the symbolic meanings of the tale. Then, based on the studies of Social Semiotics and Multimodality, the categories of representational metafunction in the visual were described, through them the illustrations of the book “Barbazul” were analyzed. Finally, the analysis data show that López (2017) created a new work, in which she seeks to subvert the moral of the original tale and the patriarchal precepts, in addition to paying tribute to the women victims of femicide.