deaf literature

This article addresses Deaf Literature in relation to Multimodality within the context of Deaf Education, considering the linguistic, cultural, and visual specificities of this population. It investigates how the multimodal resources present in a literary work addressing Deaf-related themes may offer possibilities for reading practices. The study aims to analyze the multimodal resources in the literary work A pílula de Tábata and discuss the possibilities for reading and pedagogical mediation arising from its multimodal organization. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach and documentary research design, based on the analysis of a literary work that combines different semiotic modes and resources, such as drawings, colors, written Portuguese, Libras, and SignWriting. The results demonstrate the presence of resources related to representational, interactive, and compositional meanings, such as narrative and mental processes, offer gaze, framing, and salience. The analysis also highlights the centrality of visuality and the complementary distribution of information among written Portuguese, SignWriting, and other visual elements. It is concluded that the work presents potential for the development of multimodal reading practices and pedagogical mediation in Deaf Education, particularly through the articulation of different modes of linguistic and visual representation. However, these potentialities were not empirically investigated with students, and further research involving reception data and concrete reading situations is therefore needed.