Charges na pandemia: subjetividade e condição humana

Abstract

This work has a main theme the subjectivity and the human condition in contemporary political cartoons during the Covid-19 pandemic, aiming at the analysis of speeches and texts that circulated in the first quarter of the social isolation imposed by the quarantine period, between the months of March and May 2020 initially. From an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses the precepts of French Discourse Analysis and issues relevant to the disciplines of the humanities, with theorical contributions by Maingueneau (2007 and 2018), Burke (2004 and 2017), Possenti (2004), Han (2017), among others, the analyzed texts were selected in social media (Facebook and Instagram), being listed, mainly, the productions of the cartoonist Laerte and the movement that became know as “continuous charge”, and took place from June, 2020. Circumscribed in a certain historical-ideological materiality, the political cartoon text can produce a series of meanings from its generally intense circulation and the relationship it establishes with discourse within the interdiscourse. Thus, it was possible for us to understand the subjectivities from the meanings conveyed in the speeches, and to verify how the socio-historical materiality affects these language productions. In addition, we discuss the discursive genre continued political cartoon, showing how its relations as a discourse and social movement materialize.