O caipira Chico Bento e a preservação do nacional na obra de Mauricio de Sousa

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on how rural world and the caipira are portrayed in Mauricio de Sousa's work. Through the analysis of the comics about the character named Chico Bento that are published in magazines, the work shows how the rural world is connected with the sense of the national , and how Chuck Billy's stories are characterized by the idea of conservation and by a prescriptive logic.