Parody in Machado de Assis and Camilo Castelo Branco: a brief analysis of <i>Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas</i> and <i>Coração, cabeça e estômago</i>
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https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2016.24865Keywords:
Parody, literary identity, Portuguese heritageAbstract
This article aims at analysing the relationship between Machado de Assis and Camilo Castelo Branco, regarding the use of parody in Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas and Coração, cabeça e estômago. Our hypothesis is that Machado parodied some aspects of Camilo’s novel in order to emulate it, pointing to a search for self-assurance as a writer in a literary context, characterized by the disputes between Brazilian and Portuguese intellectuals. The theoretical basis for this argumentation comes from the concept of parody as it was elaborated by Linda Hutcheon (1985), according to whom parody would be a political strategy, used, in the case we seek to analyze, to reaffirm the place of the writer in non-hegemonic contexts.
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DOI: http://dxdoi.org/10.12957/matraga.2016.24865
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