“From word to aesthetic, periphery is poetic!”: the marginal poetry of Mel Duarte as a practice of resistance and re-existence

Abstract

This work presents the analyze of three poems from the book Negra Nua Crua, by Mel Duarte. It raises reflections on the urgency of thinking about spoken / written poetry in a marginal-peripheric context as a practice of resistance and re-existence. It is a research based on literary and cultural studies. Considering the subjective black women’s universe we think it as a possible key in order to change historical stereotypes imposed to them. This analytical corpus includes the poems Não Desista!, Menina melanina and Negra Nua Crua. The theoretical studies are based on: Bosi (1977: 1996: 2002), Candido (2006), Nascimento (2006: 2019), hooks (2019), Dalcastagnè (2006) and Toni C. (2006: 2009). Our conclusions show that Mel Duarte represents a group of contemporary female poets, black women who transform invisible narratives into subject-art, forming an urban quilombo of orality and poetic reading at the same time they also rewrite their own re-existences.

Keywords

• poetry slam
• resistência e reexistência
• literatura marginal-periférica
• mel duarte.