Irony, low body and eroticism: The textures of Nei Leandro de Castro's fescenine lines
Nei Leandro de Castro; Low body; Irony; Eroticism; Intertextuality.
This doctoral research aims to analyze the short story collection Pássaro sem sono, published in 2013, by Nei Leandro de Castro (1940 -), investigating irony, eroticism and the low body as developments of the intertextuality present in the work, articulated with other texts solidified and canonized in and by society. In addition, it seeks to observe how the texts of this author are constituted in Potiguar Literature and to examine the perception between the sacred and the profane as a point of criticism in relation to Christian conservatism. This counterpoint presents itself as a non-celebratory dialogue in which two distinct and dissonant voices meet, representing the past and the present, the sacred and the profane, evidencing a dethronement of voices characteristic of contemporary texts in Brazilian literature (Perrone-Moisés, 2016). Based on the concept of dialogism (Bakhtin, 1997) and intertextuality (Kristeva, 2012; Carvalhal, 2003; Samoyault, 2008), it is understood that the citation of one author by another manifests both the perpetuation of the canon tradition and its criticality, consolidating the Brazilian literary system. For the developments generated, the research adopts the studies of Mircea Eliade (2018) as a reference for the discussion of profanation and its relationship with the sacred. The concept of corporal low is approached based on the reflections of Bakhtin (2010). Beth Brait (2005), Linda Hutcheon (2000) and D. C. Muecke (1995) will be used as support for the basis of the analysis of Irony. In the reflections on the erotic, the writings of Octavio Paz (1994) and Georges Bataille (2004) constitute the theoretical framework used.