A literatura matachinesca do carnaval de Riosucio: o trajeto do riso popular em meio século, 1970-2020

• Autor(a) principal: Restrepo, Carolina Fernanda Gartner
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/15761
• topic: Letras; Cômico Popular; Carnavalização; Carnaval de Riosucio; Literatura Colombiana; Literatura Popular Matachinesca; subject.br-rjbn

There is, in Colombia, a mestizo carnival with deep literary roots in its constitution. Different studies in the area of social sciences have been carried out on this carnival, but very little is researched about its literary expression. The carnival poets, called matachines, present orally the texts that are prepared before the performances that take place during some of the carnival events. Some of the main types of Matachinesco texts are the “Decretos”, the “Installation of the Carnival Republic” and the “Convite”. In general, they are comic texts, mainly satirical and parodic, where the matachines give an account of the most important occurrences in the city; usually criticizing some of the most recognized figures in the political and social sphere. In this research, we intend to understand the comic processes in the Matachinesca literature of the festival. We focus on an overview of theories that involve the construction and development of the comic in popular literature. We point to the signs of laughter from the perspective of Vladimir Propp's studies, in the documentary and bibliographic survey of the literature produced particularly by two matachines with the longest trajectory: Cruz Ociel Gartner Restrepo and Jaime Diego Cataño Trejos. We defend that the comic is a primary element in the dynamics of Matachinesca literature, and that popular laughter remains in the city as a subversive agent in the carnival world.