Childhood and violence: kidnappers and comics for adults in Mexico (1945-1950)
Infancia y violencia: los robachicos en las historietas para adultos en México (1945-1950)
Crianças e violência: os robachicos na banda desenhada para adultos no México (1945-1950)
| 2018 | |
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Historietas Secuestro infantil Robachicos Violencia Historia de la infancia Cultura de masas Lectura infantil Comics Children Kidnapping Robachicos Violence History of childhoold Mass media Child readers Banda desenhada Rapto de crianças Robachicos Violência História da infância Cultura de massas Leitura para crianças |
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| Español | |
| Universidad de Montevideo | |
| REDUM | |
| http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/article/view/230 | |
| Acceso abierto | |
| Atribución 4.0 Internacional |
| Sumario: | This article explores the cultural consumption of adult comics by Mexican children, focusing on comics that considered the figure of child kidnappers (robachicos) in the context of the mid-twentieth century. In a time, when mass culture offered a wide range of cultural productions, children were active consumers of high dose violence stories, that had children as protagonists. The comics studied here show the tension between the world of adults and children. In particular, the comics exposed an adult world related to children through physical and symbolic violence where children were abused, not heard and silenced by the injustices and the dangers of urban life. Finally, I analysehow emotions related to fear were commercially exploited in these comics and how the autonomous use of the city by children became, during the forties and the fifties, a risky activity for them. |
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