Humor e política nas caricaturas de Aluísio Azevedo

Abstract

This article aims to think through the political caricatures by Aluísio Azevedo (1857-1913), published in O Fígaro, in 1876, and in O Mequetrefe, in 1877. In these drawings, graphic humor and positivist and anticlerical influence of the press in late 19th century set the tone of visual strategies against the monarchy and in defense of the republic. Between the search for a paradise lost and the consolidation of a republican and nationalist future, the attempt to establish the sovereignty of a population characterized by its various faces is drawn. The representations of Brazil and the Brazilian people take a romantic and idealized look through the heroic figure of an Indian and a crucified martyr, pluralizing pieces of criticism on the empire, history, and the very role of art.