The Representation of Teaching Subjects in Chico Bento Comics

The aim of this work is to analyze Chico Bento comic strips, observing the "wills to truth" that are present and how they underpin the stereotype of teaching subjects in rural areas, using methodological procedures inspired by French Discourse Analysis (hereafter AD), especially Foucauldian theoretical assumptions. The specific objectives are: to identify the stereotypes of the student subject and the caipira teacher subject present in comic strips; to list the "will to truth" that runs through Chico Bento's stories and underpins the place of the teaching subjects (teacher and student) in rural schools. The corpus of this research was delimited by adopting the characterization of rural areas as a distinctive feature. To this end, we used six comic strips published between 1982 and 2013.