The Allegory of the Slaughterhouse in the Poetry of Golgona Anghel

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-6385.144724

Abstract

This paper investigates the poetics of Golgona Anghel by analyzing the image of the slaughterhouse used as a figuration of the contemporary world. To this end, theoretical considerations of a biopolitical nature are mobilized. Considering the allegorical nature of contemporary Portuguese poetry (Martelo, 2008; 2009) and based on a lexical-image survey of terms belonging to the semantic field of meat production, it can be inferred that the issue in focus is widespread in Anghel’s work. Whether through the construction of the landscape or the representation of human figures, the creation of the poems reveals the precariousness of life that is blatant in the contemporary horizon, blurring the boundaries between the zones of life and death, between humans and non-humans.

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Júlio César de Araújo Cadó, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Doutorando pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Linguagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (PPgEL/UFRN). É mestre em Estudos da Linguagem (Literatura Comparada) e licenciado em Letras – Língua Portuguesa e Literaturas pela mesma instituição. E-mail: julioccado@gmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3304-8022.

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2025-06-07

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CADÓ, Júlio César de Araújo. The Allegory of the Slaughterhouse in the Poetry of Golgona Anghel. Cadernos do IL, [S. l.], n. 68, p. 274–291, 2025. DOI: 10.22456/2236-6385.144724. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/cadernosdoil/article/view/144724. Acesso em: 22 aug. 2026.

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Artigos de estudos literários