I used to sing with a wound in the soul/ And metres of pain/ Dying the floor”
An Interview-Article on Poetry, Translation and the Performativity of Bodies with Dinha
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14769030 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Fracalanza (University of Lisbon – Centre for Comparative Studies), Vanessa Montesi (0000-0003-4492-4689, University of Lisbon – Centre for Comparative Studies) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 95-96 |
| Pages | 77-100 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers de littérature orale (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0396-891X • E-ISSN: 2266-1816 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/12u49 |
| OpenAlex | W4405040392 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Dinha (Maria Nilda de Carvalho Mota) is a Brazilian poet, performer, activist and academic from São Paulo. Her poetry lies in the delicate balance between the orality of the saraus – public literary gatherings that foreground bodies and poetic performances – and the graphic constellation of brackets and blank spaces in the written publications of her choreographically composed texts. The duality of her poetry challenges translation and raises important questions about positionality and aesthetic choices. How does Dinha use writing to recreate orality and exert pressure on it? In the movement from writing to reading and back, how does she dismember and reassemble the body in a different medium? And how can we, as intramedial, intercultural, white European translators, perform a similar task in the rendition of her work into a different language? Such are the questions populating our interview with the poet
Art · German · Linguistics · Literacy · Literature · Orality · Performativity · Poetry · Sociology · Visual arts · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Theatre and Performance Studies · Translation Studies and Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |