Todo poder emana das mãos brancas: discurso, raça e ideologia nos comic books da editora Timely (1939-1945).

Abstract

This research, atached to Program of Post-Graduation in History at Federal University of Pelotas aims to investigante and analyze the linguistic elements utilized by Timely in the manufacturing of racial identities in comic books published between 1939 and 1945. For this, four of the publisher’s main titles were selected: Captain America, The Human Torch, Sub-Mariner and Young Allies. This research sought to analyze the textual and imagetic elementss in the elaboration of American, german/nazi, Japanese and black races, before and after the attacks to Pearl Harbor in december 1941. Beyond the description of the the narratives, this research sought to understand the relation between United States’ national identity and the influence of racial discourse during this period. Therefore, comic books are visualized as as integral part in the process in which these identities were built and fixed. The analysis is basead upon the cultural studies HALL (2016), media studies KELLNER (2001), and some researches in comic books like EISNER (2005) and MCCloud (2005). Furthermore, the critical discourse analysis (CDA) developed Fairclough offered the methodological tools for the concetion of an adequade theoretical approach for a discoursive analysis with an object of this nature.