Mana (Apr 2012)

A casa de Joana Dark: drama e montagem

  • John Cowart Dawsey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-93132012000100004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 1
pp. 91 – 119

Abstract

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Neste artigo, ao discutir o modo como se configuram imagens de Nossa Senhora e de mães e mulheres no Jardim das Flores (ou “buraco dos capetas”), na periferia de uma cidade do interior paulista, pretende-se explorar a especificidade de estéticas dramáticas. A seguir, ainda mais do que a estética do drama social, associada à obra de Victor Turner, o princípio da montagem, que se inspira no cinema de Sergei Eisenstein, ilumina registros de cadernos de campo. E com Eisenstein - Julia Kristeva, Walter Benjamin, Michael Taussig, e Antonin Artaud. A quem se dispuser a fazer uma audição dessas mulheres, sugiro cautela. Pois em nossos ouvidos talvez ressoem os tiros de uma garrucha.While discussing images of Our Lady and of the mothers and women of the Garden of Flowers (or “Devils’ Hole”), a peripheral district of a city in the interior of São Paulo state, this paper intends to explore the specificity of dramatic aesthetics. Rather than depend upon the aesthetics of social drama, as discussed in the works of Victor Turner, the present paper deals with a concept of montage that is inspired by the cinema of Sergei Eisenstein in order to illuminate a selection of field notes... and, along with Eisenstein, Julia Kristeva, Walter Benjamin, Michael Taussig and Antonin Artaud. Wit regards to those readers interested in hearing what these women may have to say, caution is suggested, for the words of these women may ring in our ears as the sounds of musket shots.

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