This article does a study approach to the black humour genre in the written work of Roberto Fontanarrosa, an Argentine writer very famous in Latin American, in reference to the case Boogie the oily comic. In Boogie we observe a use of humor based on a naked, open and highly criticism toward to the liquid contemporary culture through the creation of a protagonist who reflects in itself all vices and evils of society. As methodology, this paper does a literature review and qualitative content analysis taking as reference ten comics of Boogie; with this material this article analyzes connotative and denotative messages. In conclusion this paper infers that a comic can serve as a vehicle to express reality by mean of absurdity and irony. Consequently, Boogie shows the culture of tolerance that human being has taken in front of the deformation values of today's world.
Keywords:
Fontanarrosa, boogie the oily, black humour, social criticism
Tusa Jumbo, F., Fontaines-Ruiz, T., & Briceño Castillo, X. (2017). The black genre within humor: critical approach to the comic Boogie the oily by Roberto Fontanarrosa. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (95). Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/46933
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