THE AESTHETIC-POLITICAL CONSTRUCTION OF BEING A POET RISING FROM A POETICS OF THE WATER: A STUDY ABOUT THE POETRY OF CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO AND SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN
Aesthetic-political project. Water movement. Lyrical voice. Identity. Subjectivity.
This work analyzes the aesthetic-political project of the poetry of the Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo and the Portuguese author Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen from a convergent primary image: the waters. The research argues that the lyrical voice of these poetic subjects is built on an initial unit, the sea, and crosses different paths from what the image of the oceans represents: in the Portuguese tradition, completeness, the discovery of the navigating being, and in the African matrix, the diasporic irruption through the transatlantic slave trade. In both cases, the movement of the waters crosses and reflects the identity of these peoples. When working with the lyrical genre, we take György Lukács's (2011) vision as an initial reference, understanding that the lyrical subject is constituted as an active subject, the construction of his subjectivity, his reflection in the world, is born through his creative action. In the poetry of Conceição and Sophia, this subjective lyrical voice is in full process of construction. As they make their paths and detours across seas and land, reflectively, they establish themselves, in their song, as lyrical subjects and concomitantly project, finally, a political-social ideal of collective/homeland. The corpus of our work comprises selected poems by Sophia M. B. Andresen, present in the books Dia do mar (1947), Mar novo (1958) and Navegações (1983) and the poetry book by Conceição Evaristo: Poemas da remembrance and other movements ( 2017), being included as theoretical contributions Octavio Paz (2012), Audre Lorde (2019), Édouard Glissant (2021), Leda Maria Martins (2021), among others, in order to delineate the lyric of Afro-Brazilian and European nuances.