O bloco burlesco Bafo da Onça na ditadura militar: carnaval e cultura em chave bakhtiniana

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the burlesque group called Bafo de Onça, from Pelotas/RS, during the period of Military Dictatorship in Brazil, considering the Bakhtinian theorization on the popular culture and his reflections and about the Carnival as a popular party that acquires functions and elements for understanding of the world. This concept is developed by the author in his studies of Rabelais (2009), resulting in the work A Cultura Popular na Idade Média e no Renascimento – o contexto de François Rabelais (2013). In Carnival, according to the author, there is a kind of temporary liberation of the dominant truth and the regime in force at the time. Thus, we seek to understand the role of the burlesque group as a form of resistance. We focus on the narrative of Martins (2015), which gave us an interview, and also on the Tombo Book of the Church Nossa Senhora Aparecida, written by Clerical Ozy, both elements constitutives of the corpus this work. We use as methodological bases the steps proposed by Sobral (2009), description-analysisinterpretation, to we accomplish our work, which follows a qualitative approach in which the understanding seeks to go beyond data. The study showed that the group used the irreverence in parades of street carnival to criticize the dictatorship, configuring a discursive paradox, since the dictatorship sought to impose itself to any resistance at all levels. To observe the Bafo da Onça allowed us to understand the conflicts and/or shocks present in the marks of dialogical relations peculiar in a period in which there is a false freedom of the permission and inversion of values, in an illusory representation, something has which not prevented certain transgression of the official culture and the patterns then established.