Humor as aesthetics and identity gun in the works of Dany Laferrière and Yinka Shonibare

Authors

  • Eurídice Figueiredo UFF

Keywords:

diaspora, stereotypes and clichés, violence and sexuality, humour

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to articulate the Canadian writer of Haitian descent, Dany Laferrière (1953-) autobiography, Une autobiographie américaine, to the work of the British of Nigerian descent, Yinka Shonibare (1962-), depicting mainly their usage of humour, transgression and parody of values and stereotypes concerning Black people. It's important to show how these two diasporic artists, born at the second half of the 20th century, living in between their home countries and the imperial centers, inscribe themselves in Westem tradition, using humour as an aesthetical and identiterian instrument in order to demonstrate a deep consciousness of subalternization they live, due to historical reasons, as well as the gap between their self image and the one that society's mirror reflects, which is deformed and caricatural.

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Author Biography

Eurídice Figueiredo, UFF

Doutora pela UFRJ (1988), é professora de Literaturas Francófonas e literatura Comparada na UFF. Foi coordenadora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UFF (1995-1999), do GT da ANPOLL "Relações literárias interamericanas" (2000-2002, 2002-2004). Organizou Conceitos de literatura e cultura (2005), Recortes transculturais (1997), A escrita feminina e a tradição literária (1995). Publicou Construção de identidades pós-coloniais na literatura antilhana (1998) e inúmeros artigos em obras coletivas e revistas nacionais e internacionais. É pesquisadora do CNPq.

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Published

2005-12-30

How to Cite

Figueiredo, E. (2005). Humor as aesthetics and identity gun in the works of Dany Laferrière and Yinka Shonibare. Gragoatá, 10(19). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33266

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 19 (2005): África, new pathways

Section

Literature Articles

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