Abstract
In Rio de Janeiro, under the control of Brazilian writer Manuel Bastos Tigre, the D. Quixote magazine (1917-1926) published prejudiced content aimed at critiquing the São Paulo modernist movement between 1920 and 1926. Employing humor along with textual and visual resources, D. Quixote conveyed ableism, misogyny, homophobia, racism, and the stigmatization of musical and popular practices. To qualify the intensity of prejudiced expression in publications of the process, the author defined the category of ‘expressive aggressiveness’. Due to the synchrony and similarity of part of the content, elements of D. Quixote’s process were compared with elements of the anti-modernist campaigns of the São Paulo newspapers A Gazeta (1921-1922) and Folha da Noite (1923). Utilizing keyword searches in the Digital Newspaper Library of the Brazilian National Library relevant publications were found. Likewise, the arguments of researchers in humor and Brazilian history were considered. This report records the names and artworks questioned at the reception of São Paulo modernism in Rio de Janeiro, shedding light about the social construction of prejudice. Notably, journalists, writers, and humorists engaged in producing prejudiced content as means to engage in debate about art.
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