King's College London

This book examines types of enunciation and evocation of fear in series of stories published in Brazilian newspapers in the early twentieth century. Two perspectives used by journalists are analysed: one that sees violence as part of the everyday life, and the other one in which urban violence is approached as a war metaphor. These stories focus on violent crimes, eventually producing a symbology and a vocabulary that constitute contemporary narratives about fear in everyday life of large cities in Brazil.