Olhando através do ideal americano: a política do humor violento em As aventuras de Huckleberry Finn

Autores

  • Navid Etedali University of Tehran, Iran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X66796

Palavras-chave:

Focalização, Grotesco, Humor, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Violência

Resumo

Huckleberry Finn é o auge do humor americano e o humor violento do romance critica os valores morais da sociedade americana. Apesar do riso estar presente na superfície, por trás da história há um humor amargo que ataca e rompe diferentes sistemas de valores. Além do humor extremamente violento, o grotesco se apresenta como uma das outras estratégias que auxiliam o humor no cumprimento de sua missão política. A estratégica colaboração do humor violento com o grotesco e a narração resulta na libertação de uma mentalidade estática por parte dos leitores. Huck Finn efetivamente revela o caráter espúrio do ideal americano, apesar de suas alegações de ser genuíno através da justaposição de personagens, mundos e vidas heterogêneos que revelam a crueza da vida cotidiana. Para este fim, as teorias do humor de estudiosos como Plaza, Walker, Cox e Camfield e as teorias da violência de Zizek, Schinkel e Galtung são utilizadas para esclarecer o mecanismo interconectado do humor, da violência e do grotesco em atacar os sistemas de valores pútridos. O humor violento alinhado com a focalização do romance através de Huck, um narrador ingênuo, destaca a disparidade entre o ideal americano e as realidades da vida que libertam os leitores de visões opiáceas da sociedade e lhes dão uma visão clara, livre de sistemas de valores tendenciosos.

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2023-04-01

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Etedali, N. (2023). Olhando através do ideal americano: a política do humor violento em As aventuras de Huckleberry Finn. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (40), 139–158. https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X66796