Traços urbanos: a caricatura em Curitiba no início do século XX

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to analyze some charges published in the beginning of the twentieth century on the magazines: O Olho da Rua (1907- 1911), A Carga (1907), A Rolha (1908) e A Bomba (1913). They multiply the views about the city; about the urban reforms and technical innovations in the Republic; about politics and the citizens that circulate in the city. They resignify the urban experience. The caricatures are a dynamic process that interacts with several cultural practices, a dialogic and polyphonic discourse as defined by Bakhtin. Through irony and ambiguity, caricatures established a constant dialog with the images disseminated by the elite and its official press, de-constructing, creating ruptures, reversing the order, multiplying the perspectives, showing us the hybridism and heterogeneity of urban space, drawing new borders between public and private, renegotiating meanings. This mosaic of complexities and cultural exchanges shows several faces of the population, and even in an attempt of synthesis, like in the figure of Zé Povo, it doesn't constitute a picture homogenous and unique, but conjugates in itself ftagmentation and interaction. The reader is an essential part of this garoe, being invited to new challenges of perception, becoming its co-author and accomplice