The readability of catastrophes in our time: a task of restitution
In this essay, I reflect on the tasks of poetic criticism in its importance for the readability of catastrophes. From a reading of “Poema para a catástrofe do nosso tempo” by Alberto Pucheu (2020a) and the theories of memory and imagination by Georges Didi-Huberman (2018a; 2018b), I circumscribe a t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/56019 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/estudos/article/view/56019 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | poesia brasileira contemporânea; imagem; memória; catástrofe. poesía brasileña contemporánea; imagen; memoria; catástrofe. contemporary Brazilian poetry; image; memory; catastrophe. |
| Sumario: | In this essay, I reflect on the tasks of poetic criticism in its importance for the readability of catastrophes. From a reading of “Poema para a catástrofe do nosso tempo” by Alberto Pucheu (2020a) and the theories of memory and imagination by Georges Didi-Huberman (2018a; 2018b), I circumscribe a task of restitution, which operates in the face of denialism and erasure of historical violence. Considering Walter Benjamin’s theory of knowledge (Benjamin, 2012; 2020b) and its developments in Didi-Huberman’s work, I view the poem as a critical montage of our time, where the poet juxtaposes different paradigms of readability related to the processes of extermination that have occurred in Brazil and culminate in the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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