A ÁFRICA NOS QUADRINHOS DE O TICO-TICO, DOS ANOS 1900 À DÉCADA DE 1930

Abstract

This article aims to study the imaginary about
Africa and Africans developed in Brazil between the 1900s and
1930s, with a focus on the role played by comic strips published
in the magazine O Tico-Tico. These stories present the African
continent as a place defined by its hostile nature, with its dense
jungles and inhospitable deserts, and by its inhabitants stereotyped
as anthropophagous, animalized, black savages. The reflection
takes as reference current ideas in the fields of Visual History and
Visual Culture, so that the strips are understood as indexes of the
existence of the imaginary itself and of the relationship
established between artists and readers in its construction and
maintenance.