Resumen

MUNGUIA, Martha Elena. La risa y el humor: Apuntes para una poética histórica de la literatura mexicana. Acta poét [online]. 2006, vol.27, n.1, pp.187-212. ISSN 2448-735X.

This article puts forward the existence of two mainstreams in Mexican literary history: one of them is serious, sublime and identified with ideal values; the other line, displaced to the margins or ignored, has to do with humour and laughter. The article explores some of the ways in which serious and cultured literature has admitted humour and laughter: the election of a voice narrating a story with relativistic tones and attitudes distanced from oral communication. The second way is the orchestration of stories taking as a point of departure the utterance of the caudillo, a revolutionary leader and the authority from the parody. Finally, the character of the homosexual is analyzed as a descentered voice that has permitted the introduction of the joke and the laughter in the canonical literary forms.