“Que me dizem vocês da ideia de um jornal humorístico nestas eras tristes e ameaçadoras?”: uma análise da revista D. Quixote durante a gripe espanhola em 1918

Abstract

The main objective of this monograph is to analyze, through the illustrated magazine Don Quixote (1917-1926), the daily lives of its workers during the Spanish Flu epidemic in Rio de Janeiro in 1918. The aim is to highlight the conflicts experienced by the magazine's employees, especially in relation to the lack of government structure to deal with a calamity. The study is based on a survey of news published by the aforementioned magazine, in order to analyze the various details of an epidemic together with the effects of the absence of effective public policies. The research was committed to collecting specific data on the daily lives of the workers of Don Quixote and the work of the magazine's founder and director, Manuel Bastos Tigre. The research also explores the influence of the book Don Quixote de La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes, and the newspaper Don Quixote, by Angelo Agostini, on the construction of the magazine and its main characteristic: making people laugh in the midst of tragedies. Moreover, taking into account the undergraduate training, we explore historical research in conjunction with the teaching of History.