Literature with the whole body

the technopolitics of affection in peripheral poets’ collectives

Abstract

This paper discusses the recovery of the conjugation between language, body and community in the literary and political experience of three collectives of poets in the outskirts of Fortaleza (BaRRosas; Pretarau: sarau das preta; and Elaspoemas: escritas periféricas). Based on a participatory research in Cultural Pragmatics (Alencar, 2015), we observe, in their community literary production, the retaliation and, at the same time, the resignification of ways of life guided by the reinauguration of the word, by the possibility of “putting oneself in a collective”, by providing the word to marginalized, violated, silenced social bodies. Starting from the category “poem-body-community” (Cabnal, 2010) and the creative synthesis “woman: poem-body-community” of community feminism (Paredes, 2010), we saw, in the experience of collectives, the antidote to rediscover the common(itarian) feeling as a preliminary and necessary condition of collective life, precisely because they, with poems, not only carry out the aesthetic and community rescue of the word and language, but also facilitate the opening of new horizons, far from the disembodiment of the experience present in digital platforms.