Journalistic Narrative and Representations: The Hostage Crisis of Iran through Veja Magazine (1979-1981)

Abstract

This article discusses the use of dynamic serial narrative as persuasive element to the reading public. Therefore, we analyzed the events in Tehran, capital of Iran between 1979 and 1981, known as the hostage crisis, reported by the Brazilian magazine Veja. This episode is part of the post-revolutionary Iranian context, which provided the government break the autocracy of the shah (emperor) Mohammed Reza Pahlavi causing the rise of an Islamic theocracy led by the Ayatollah (Islamic religious authority) Rulloah Khomeini. The proposal, therefore, is to see how the newspaper translated the Iranian event staking into account their narrative strategy, journalistic dynamics used to report Iran in the proposed time frame.