As aventuras de Tintim na África: representando o outro nas HQ s As Aventuras de Tintim: Tintim no Congo (1931-1946)

Abstract

This work tries to analyses the 1931 and 1946 editions of the comic book The adventures of Tintin: Tintin in Congo . The purpose is to investigate how the Congolese are represented in this comic book. The author of the comics and many authors that wrote about the comics considers the stories realists . My goal is not to tell how the real world is, but to demonstrate that these comic books are not realists, but are committed to a viewpoint about reality that is based in racism, paternalism and colonialism. I will analyze the images and text in order to understand how the discourse it produces works. This discourse is not only a result of its society, but also something that built the said society, not only because it had a huge base of children readers, but because it was a commercial success. This discourse presents various racists ideas, shown naturally, where Congolese are systematically put down by Tintin, in a association with the Congolese historical experience, where they were put down by government officials, police force, work exploration and an extremely biased legislation. Thus, I will study the representation of this colonized people as an important part of the process of identity construction, either for the colonized and the colonist