A voz e a vez das mulheres no slam: poesia, performance e resistência

Abstract

This paper aims to study the presentations of female slammer poets from Belo Horizonte and the Metropolitan Region. Thus, we seek to understand how resistance permeates these productions and the movement as a whole, as well as their modes of production, circulation and preservation. Furthermore, a reflection is developed on marginal-peripheral poetry in the context of contemporary literary production, considering both writing and embodied expression, thinking of them on the threshold between poetry and prose. Participatory observation, video recordings and printed materials were used to support the development of the analyses presented here. As a theoretical framework, we mainly used authors who help to compose reflections on power relations, violence and resistance, such as Rodrigo de Castro Orellana (2011-2012), Alfredo Bosi (1996), Georges Didi-Huberman (2017), Michel Foucault (2004), Hannah Arendt (2010), Karl Erik Schøllhammer (2013) and Jaime Ginzburg (2012); on the many aspects of performance and performativity, such as Diana Taylor (2013), Gonzalo Aguilar and Mario Cámara (2017), Richard Schechner (2003), Paul Zumthor (1997), Leda Maria Martins (2021) and Judith Butler (2019); culminating in the transition between embodied expression and written word in contemporary aesthetics, with the help of theorists such as Giorgio Agamben (2009), Florencia Garramuño (2014b), Cámara et al. (2018), Alfonso Berardinelli (2007), Luciane di Leone (2014), and Marcos Siscar (2015). Thus, this paper focuses on the poetry of slammers, considering the relationships they establish between words and performance, their elaboration processes, their aesthetics and their praxis.