The Carnivalization of Death in the Chronicle “A tragédia do cordão Estrela de Dois Diamantes” [The Tragedy of the Star with Two Diamonds Carnival Block], by Luís Edmundo

ABSTRACT The article intends to demonstrate when the carnival chronicle at the beginning of the 20th century in Brazil was a tool for a national cultural project under bourgeois, univocal and European canons, comparing its occurrences with the carnivalization seen in the chronicle “A tragédia do Cordão Estrela de Dois Diamantes” [The Tragedy of the Star with Two Diamonds Carnival Block], by Luís Edmundo.