Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (Jan 2012)
A estética contemporânea: nova poética, novo olhar
Abstract
The so-called Post-Modernism in Brazil, as in most western countries, is a multiple phenomenon, full of indetermination. One aspect of this panorama is the distrust of speech structures once considered stables that seemed to characterize the modernist language, and also the consciense of the precarious status of the groundworks and determinations, which is disseminated in the idea of scattering, of insuficiency of the dialectics supported by enlightenment and rationalism. This attitude tends to produce an aesthetics of unfamiliarity, in which literature is inclined to be seen as a singular activity, as an indiferentiated act achieved by the one who writes, in the obscure and silent side of language. This text intends to make a reflection on some renowned poems of the contemporary brazilian literature, and on how this condition seems to determine a new look to this literature,subverting the knowledge, the forms, the genders, the concepts that at a certain point were sufficient to explain the literary text.
