Cultura e política nas histórias em quadrinhos Luke e Tantra de Angeli.

Abstract

The present work/academic work has as purpose analyze the speech of a cartoonist from São Paulo, Angeli, through the comic books LUKE AND TANTRA, about the new political and cultural contexts in the years 1990-2000. The adventures and the urban universe of the characters LUKE AND TANTRA satirize a context of political, economic, socials and cultural transformations brought by the globalization, in special concerning how Brazil has experienced since the 1990´s. The referred Angeli‟s characters live in a world marked by globalization processes, as the same time they coexist with diverse localisms. The plots unfold in a fluid and flexible environment, where the characters are always being put, and putting themselves, under situations that reset their identities. There‟s a fragmentation of the identities, tribalisation of behaviors, redefinition of the politics space on the new context and fluidization of the social dynamic. It‟s intended to discuss about how the comic book LUKE AND TANTRA, while an artist-cultural production that express behaviors, perceptions and feelings that dialogue and put themselves in a position to face up the referred transformations. For this purpose, we will make use of the interpretations about a contemporary society, as the example of Zygmunt Bauman, Michel Maffesoli, Nestor Canclini, Richard Sennett and others.