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>

Authors

  • Greicy Bellin Pós-doutoranda pela Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2016.24865

Keywords:

Parody, literary identity, Portuguese heritage

Abstract

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

Author Biography

Greicy Bellin, Pós-doutoranda pela Universidade Federal do Paraná

Mestre e Doutora em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Atualmente é pós-doutoranda em Estudos Literários pela mesma instituição, com pesquisa a respeito das relações de confluência entre as obras de Machado de Assis e Camilo Castelo Branco. É também tradutora da New London Librarium, tendo recentemente publicado a coletânea Miss Dollar: Stories by Machado de Assis, que traz a tradução inédita de dez contos de Machado para o inglês com prefácio de Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, especialista renomada em estudos machadianos.

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Published

2016-11-30

How to Cite

Bellin, G. (2016). 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>. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 23(39). https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2016.24865

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 39 (2016): In the centenary of Dirce Côrtes Riedel (1915-2015)

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Literature Papers

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