Charges como documentos históricos: imaginando o governo Collor (1990-1992)

Abstract

We tried to identify, in the Collor government and from this perspective, the way in which cartoons and other graphic productions are and act as documents of the Brazilian historical process. For this, it was necessary, in this research, to reflect on the relationship of the cartoons with the context of the period, with the press and with the science of History. When carrying out a historiographic analysis, it is clear that traditional historiography has relegated images to a subordinate position in a “hierarchy” of historical sources. This phenomenon is a historical legacy of the Enlightenment that prioritized the text. This vision, at the present time, is almost surpassed by historians, but it still requires advances.