Abstract

GARCIA-DUSSAN, Éder. The Case of the Donkey Festival in San Antero (Córdoba): Parody and Social Redemption. Folios [online]. 2019, n.49, pp.107-122. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.49-9398.

The National Donkey Festival, which celebrated its 31st edition in the Municipality of San Antero (Córdoba) in 2018, takes place during Easter and is a ritual in which the most recent sociopolitical reality is ridiculed through donkeys wearing costumes. However, this complex regional form of expression is characterized by different ritual elements, and the purpose here is not only to analyze the "dressed donkey contest," but also, preferably, the act known as "The Parade of Judas Scariot," which takes place on Saturday of Glory. To that end, we used as basis some principles of discursive analysis, under the premises obtained from van Dijk (2000, 2008), Fairclough (1998), and Renkema (1999). The results of this effort allow us to understand some of the causes that explain the communicative purpose of the Festival; they also reveal a transculturation of other similar events and the festival's focus on a symbol that allows the exorcism of the social evil and the imaginative correction of the shared reality. To fulfill our goal, the paper is divided in four sections: the theoretical framework, which describes the theoretical concept of festivity; the methodological framework, which unfolds the analytical moments of festive events; the results of the actual study, and, finally, the conclusions.

Keywords : festival; symbol; imitation; congregation; liberation.

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