The bourgeoisie framed: Mafalda and its group criticize elements of the bourgeois society (the naturalization of the differences, the inhumanuzation and the competition) in the History class

• Main Author: Carlos Eduardo Rebuá Oliveira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2012-08-01
• Series: Antíteses
• Subjects: Ensino de História; Burguesia; Contra-hegemonia; Mafalda; Cartoon.
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/12894

The purpose of this work, from a marxist point of view, is to think about the possibility in criticizing the bourgeosie society in History classes, to set up colectively, at last, anti-hegemonic reality readings. Based upon Gramsci concept of hegemony and on anti-hegemony notion, we have analyzed the comics not with the intention of making this language more and more present in the classes but with the attempt of understanding them as a tool that may contribute a lot for a real criticism and for the explicitness of the historic moment in which they were created, for a teaching, at the same time, more playful and critic. In methodological terms, we have selected three <em>Mafalda’s</em> strips (named “The naturalization of the differences”, “The inhumanization” and “The competition”), shown on <em>Toda Mafalda</em> (2002) aiming to replace the insights herein sketched. This work is a part of the master’s degree lecture, read  at the Postgraduation Program in Education of UERJ (ProPed) in March 2011, under the title of <em>Mafalda in The History class: a criticism of the bourgeoise society charactheristic elements and the collective making-up of hegemonic meanings</em>.