As experiências públicas do(no) jornalismo em quadrinhos: intensificação de passados violentados, produção de presença e verdade poética na contemporaneidade

Abstract

Investigating the emergence of public experiences in and of comic book journalism in contemporary times becomes a central undertaking in this thesis. In other words, we seek to capture and understand a double experiential movement that comic book journalism seems to present as a contemporary communicational phenomenon: a) an expressive form that is potentially welcoming of the appearance of diverse content, linked to some public experiences lived by the subjects; and b) an emergence, as a language, of a public experience possible for journalism. Thus, the main focus of the thesis is to situate comic book journalism as a social demand to retell erased, ignored, and unknown stories, so that this genre becomes the stage for a communicational movement of intensification of pasts, based on a gesture that produces presence and welcomes, above all, a kind of poetic truth (Rangel, 2021), in contemporary times. To construct our methodology, we used the epistemological proposal of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's aesthetic analysis, from which we took comic book journalism as a materiality of communication, investigated based on inspiration from the Gumbrechtian philological method. For the analysis, we selected four works of comic book journalism, namely: “Notas de um tempo silenciado” (VILALBA, 2015), “Três mulheres da Craco” (ITO, 2022), “Raul” (DE MAIO, 2018) and “Reportagens” (SACCO, 2016). As a result, it was possible to identify that, guided by principles of journalism investigation, such works highlight not only the proposed factual content, but, above all, insinuate the very emergence of comic book journalism as a contemporary public experience, whose tone becomes conducive to the intensification of violated pasts. Such intensification occurs from presences and stimmungs (atmospheres), produced by a fictionality instituted by factual investigation. In this way, the phenomenon of comic book journalism becomes capable of welcoming testimonies and traumatic experiences, towards a truth that proposes, poetically and in connection with reality, to produce new atmospheres and to claim, in turn, new publicly forged horizons.