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| Author(s): |
Joao Eduardo Cezar de Vilhena
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2007-08-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Elias Thome Saliba;
Paula Ester Janovitch;
José Geraldo Vinci de Moraes
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| Advisor: | Elias Thome Saliba |
| Abstract | |
This work is a study about the process of urbanization in São Paulo city in the years 1900-1914, through the analysis of cartoons reproduced in the journals and magazines of the mentioned period. The accelerated transformations occurred in the urban space, intensily experienced by their inhabitants, was a direct result of a project designed to the city at the turn of XIX-XX centuries: the \"progress\" of São Paulo. A persistent word related to the arguments about the transformations of the urban space, \"progress\" become the truly sign of a desirable identity to be produced for the city, its population, its past and even its future. However, this discourse of modernization, even though very strong, has many and serious imperfections, noticed and revealed ingeniously by the cartoon artists and chroniclers through the powerful and \"petulant\" humour\"s language. Important pieces of the \"visual regime\" of the period, the humour drawnings reveal unexpected angles of the citizen\"s sight of the urban space, it\"s progressive transfiguration and old (and well-knowed) commom problems to the people of São Paulo. (AU) | |