Album da Rapaziada: the obscene humor of Francisco Moniz Barreto

Author(s)

Leonidas Pellegrini

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2008-07-03

Examining board members

Luiz Carlos da Silva Dantas; Fábio Akcelrud Durão; Eduardo Vieira Martins

• Advisor: Jefferson Cano; Luiz Carlos da Silva Dantas

Abstract

The whole purpose of this work is the rehabilitation of the baiense poet Francisco Moniz Barreto (1804 ¿ 1868), from an analysis of his fescennine poems book, Álbum da Rapaziada (1864). This text is split in four principal chapters: in ¿Questões Preliminares¿, there is a previous discussion about the connotations of the terms eroticism, pornography and obscenity, and their respective uses and adaptations. In ¿Poesia Romântica: Humor, Erotismo e Obscenidade¿, is discussed the question of authores and works elected by the literary arbiters in the rising of the national canon. It¿s verified that, as much as the humoristic, the erotic and obscene poetry became obscured, or faded, in view of the preoccupation in building a canon firm in the national identity. It¿s exposed, in opposition to it¿s verified, in many traditional history and criticism tomes of the brazilian literature, a significative list of romantic authores that have wrote a very high kind satiric and fescennine poetry. The chapter ¿De Herói da Independência a Repentista Anedotário: Um perfil da Vida e Obra de Francisco Moniz Barreto¿ is destinated to expose briefly the life, works and ciritique fortune of Moniz Barreto, verifiding his canon position, and the many poetic versants in his production, since the encomiastical to the satiric works. Finally, the chapter ¿Mercadejo Literário e Gargalhadas Obscenas: O Álbum da Rapaziada e o 'Lado B¿ de Francisco Moniz Barreto¿ is destinated to analising the poet fescennine production, all concentrated in Álbum da Rapaziada. In that work, it¿s considerable characteristics peculiar to the romantic esthetical as much as to the fescennine tradiction, and, in a particular Moniz Barreto¿s case, the his clear and manifested intention in making money whit his literature (AU)