THE RETHORIC OF THE OPPRESSED: ON THE IDEA OF MILITANT LITERATURE IN LIMA BARRETO

THE RETHORIC OF THE OPPRESSED: ON THE IDEA OF MILITANT LITERATURE IN LIMA BARRETO

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Lima Barreto emerges in Brazilian literature during Parnassian esthetic period, the official literature Back Pain and Belle poque academicism.From a notion of militant literature, his work faces the official literature in the esthetic and ideological plan as well.Language is one of the most important aspects in his rebellion, considering that the idea of militant literature could only exist from language itself and that the Sanitation destruction of old structures presupposed the destruction of the old expressions, which for him, meant demolishing the old models that anchored the official rhetoric.