Um riso carnavalesco na belle époque carioca: as crônicas barretianas, sob pseudônimos, e seu diálogo com os deserdados da cidade

Abstract

In this research, I intend to investigate a corpus consisting of 08 chronicles of Lima Barreto produced in the context of Belle Époque in Rio de Janeiro. The chronicles are part of a book organized by Felipe Botelho Corrêa (2016) who selected 164 chronicles of Lima Barreto written under the nickname of pseudonyms in the magazines Careta and Fon-Fon. The analysis of the selected corpus takes place through the confluence of three discursive fields: literary, journalistic, and humorous and carries in itself the mark of subversive humor, of an enunciative identity marked by laughter that destabilizes and language designed to talk to the city of Rio de Janeiro and its disinherited. Thus, the analysis rests on chronicles that may evidence dissident social identities or resistance of civilizing discourse. The categories grotesque, lowering the other, breaking of hierarchiesanalyzed come from the concepts of dialogism and literary carnivalization, concepts explored in the studies of the Circle of Bakhtin. The theoretical and methodological contribution of this work is given by the studies of the French Discourse Analysis, mainly Maingueneau and Foucault, from the Bakhtin Circle studies and from the studies identity on Hall and Bhabha.