Laughter's empire: comic aspects in A Samba for Sherlock

This paper offers an interpretation of Jo Soares’ A samba for Sherlock highlighting the construction of the comic from a series of strategies that ranges from the mobilization and revelation of stereotypes, social satire, and grotesque. Towards that concur theories about laughter and its relationshi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Cordeiro, Fernando
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB)
Repositorio:Fólio - Revista de Letras
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.periodicos2.uesb.br:article/12688
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/folio/article/view/12688
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Humor
Cômico
Jô Soares
O Xangô de Baker Street
Comic
A samba for Sherlock
Descripción
Sumario:This paper offers an interpretation of Jo Soares’ A samba for Sherlock highlighting the construction of the comic from a series of strategies that ranges from the mobilization and revelation of stereotypes, social satire, and grotesque. Towards that concur theories about laughter and its relationship with social context developed by authors such as Propp, Bergson and Bakhtin. The aim is to demonstrate how in the Brazilian novel humor is related to the questioning and the maintenance of certain hierarchies by mocking characters, social groups, conventions, including, those of the crime genre and one of its prominent figures: Sherlock Holmes.