Name: HELLEN CARLA DOS SANTOS CESÁRIO
Publication date: 31/07/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| JOAO CLAUDIO ARENDT | Presidente |
| LUCIANA PAIVA CORONEL | Examinador Externo |
| VITOR CEI SANTOS | Examinador Interno |
Summary: This dissertation investigates how literature – understood from an expanded perspective that
encompasses cinema, music, and the visual arts – is incorporated into the construction of critical
humor in the cybercharges of Marcio Vaccari, published between 2019 and 2022, amidst a
context of political radicalization and social setbacks during the Bolsonaro administration.
Rather than merely provoking laughter, these digital productions function as instruments of
resistance, using satire as a central strategy to expose the dismantling of public policies and
highlight the contradictions of an official discourse marked by intolerance, negligence, and
distortion of reality. Through the analysis of a selected corpus of cybercharges that engage with
literary works and references, this study seeks to understand how humor intertwines with social
criticism, cultural memory, and multimodal language to challenge the present. The research is
grounded in a theoretical framework that encompasses reflections on the contemporary political
context (Avritzer, 2020 & 2021; Singer, 2018; Castro Rocha, 2021), as well as studies on humor
and the grotesque (Bergson, 1987; Propp, 1992; Bakhtin, 1987; Sodré & Paiva, 2002), satire
and parody (Moisés, 2004; Hansen, 1990; Hutcheon, 1989), and contributions on political
cartoons and their reconfiguration in the digital environment (Miani, 2012; Schwertner &
Adolfo, 2020)
