A representação da Amazônia nas ilustrações de Júlio Verne ao Urtigão. 1881 – 1994.

Abstract

This thesis is an analysis of the representations of the Amazon in the illustrations found in two different media, books and comic books, which are commonly found in everyday social actors in the Amazon region. The study is directed to the process of circulation of images encompassing the entire communication chain, which starts in the design of ideas for those who have the power of representation, through what is represented to the target audience that produces its own conclusions of what They note showing that they are not passive readers. In addition, the research addresses the struggles the statements of identities between regional historical figures who do not recognize themselves in drawings produced and social agents responsible for the choices that will be represented, the ideological discourses that support these choices and what they mean. The time frame studied is slightly larger than a century, it begins around 1880 and extends until the last decade of the twentieth century, at a first impression may seem too broad, but it is divided into three distinct historical periods and present the same kind of drawings to represent the Amazon. Thus, the reason for the realization of this historical research was due to the need to discuss how to handle the understanding by the observers of images and pictures drawn in order to represent the Amazon considering that each receptor individual has a luggage cultural that influence the result.