E estas obras do Porto? O messias chega primeiro... A Reforma do Porto do Rio de Janeiro: crítica e entusiasmo nas revistas O Malho, A Avenida e Kósmos (1903 - 1906)

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the port reform promoted between 1903 and 1906 in the mandate of the President Rodrigues Alves throught illustrated magazines. The investigation developed throught the periodicals O Malho, A Avenida e Kósmos seeks to understand how the reform was seen, analyzed and displayed. Therefore, a critical analysis of the sources will always be emphasized. In addition to this, the Rio de Janeiro`s port reform was conceived by the international and modern capitalist scenario. In this same period called Belle Époque, the Modernity process changed the relationship between man and cities. This way of relation which in Europe had already occurred since nineteenth century, developed aspirations for a reform in Rio de Janeiro. The transformation studied was intended to generate civilization and progress in the federal capital. Through these questions is that the observation of the present discourses in the cartoons of the illustrated magazines are highlighted, because they allow to verify the non-said of the official discourse and of the daily press. Regarding to this, the research aims to verify through graphic satire new aspects of debate about the port reform.