Artistic representation as a possible critical reflection on historical catastrophe
This article aims to establish some of the possible dialogues between representation and catastrophe. It intends to understand how the artistic representation of a historical tragedy helps us reconfigure the meanings of history itself as well as human relations. At first, it addresses how much a cat...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repository: | Letras & letras (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/50350 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/50350 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Arts Representation Catastrophe Trauma Memory Artes Representação Catástrofe Memória |
| Summary: | This article aims to establish some of the possible dialogues between representation and catastrophe. It intends to understand how the artistic representation of a historical tragedy helps us reconfigure the meanings of history itself as well as human relations. At first, it addresses how much a catastrophe imposes limits and difficulties on representation. Then, it discusses how an artwork, an historical event and its reception may articulate, creating an intersection between them, in which the autonomy and the specificities of each one of these factors remains – and it necessarily depends on how they relate to the other elements in order to accomplish the artistic production. The present text is divided into five sections: 1) Introduction; 2) Limits and possibilities of representing the catastrophe; 3) Literary narrative as a power of life in the face of a catastrophic referential; 4) The cinematic representation of the catastrophe; and 5) Representation: a possibility of understanding and of new significances human practice. |
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