| Summary: | The publication of Almocreve de Petas, from 1797 to 1800, marks the onset of the systematic use of humor in Portuguese periodical press. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the main themes of the social criticism in Almocreve de Petas. An interdisciplinary - historical, cultural and political - perspective allows showing the role of humor in the crystallization and integration of the otherness of its targets, as a phenomenon of the new and the different becomes a butt of a joke its otherness is being acknowledged, thus making the discovery of alterity in the diversity possible. |
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