Tough Geography

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Cape Verde, Germano Almeida, Parody, Carnival, Laughter

Abstract

This paper examines the novel O Meu Poeta [My Poet], written by the Cape Verdean author Germano Almeida, to propose an interpretation of laughter as a tool to decipher and analyze postindependence Cape Verdean society. The purpose of this essay is to identify, based on the definition of text as a discourse parody, its political and moral assumptions and colonial remnants in the authoritarianism that sustains it.

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Benhur Bortolotto, UFRGS

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2017-09-05

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Bortolotto, B. (2017). Tough Geography. Bakhtiniana. Revista De Estudos Do Discurso , 12(3), Port. 22–36 / Eng. 27. Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/30183

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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2017)

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