Banca de DEFESA: OLGA MARIA HAWES FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA

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STUDENT : OLGA MARIA HAWES FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 17/02/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: online
TITLE:

“Aesthetic experiences in the colonial city: slam poetry and the formation of political beings in Natal/RN”

 

KEY WORDS:

Slam poetry, aesthetics, politics, city, Northeast.

PAGES: 145
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Since the 1990s, the artistic and cultural movement of peripheral literature has emerged in Brazil, characterized by the protagonism of artists from urban peripheries as a response to socio-cultural and racial segregation in modern cities. Among these movements, resistance poetry, or slam poetry, has been gaining more followers.
The poetry battles, intense and carnival-like in nature, evaluate poems based on their political, identity, lyrical, and performative aspects. These battles have spread worldwide, transforming the cultural landscape, which was previously confined to elites, by incorporating young people, women, racialized individuals, and LGBTQ+ people into literature. In the city of Natal, in Rio Grande do Norte, slams have been gaining visibility since 2019, introducing young artists into the local political-cultural scene, which is marked by the legacies of colonialism and clientelism. It is in this context that this work emerges, aiming to investigate the aesthetic experiences of peripheral poets in their relationship with the political in Natal. Slam Rima Central, one of the pioneers of the slam culture in the city, was chosen as the focus of the study. The research was guided by the notions of aesthetic experience/living in Vygotsky and its incorporations into the concept of politics in Jacques Rancière, establishing triangulations with feminist decolonial epistemologies, through theoretical bridges between various authors, among which we highlight Judith Butler and Patricia Hill Collins. The approach to the field-theme occurred through participation in the city's cultural events and immersion in slam events via participant- observation, as well as field diary records. Two interviews were also conducted with the slam organizers, the slammasters. The results were organized into three chapters that aim to build scenes of dissent, inspired by Rancière's scene method. The first chapter deals with the relationship between slam poetry and politics, questioning the production of sensitive regimes in the literary field. The second introduces a slam night, and the space-time disruptions mobilized in the urban setting, investigating the poetic practices instituted by the movement. In the third and final chapter, we analyze the poetic-musical manifesto of one of the interviewees, set against the backdrop of the dispute over the revision process of the document determining the Master Plan of the city of Natal. It was concluded that slams are spaces of poetic experimentation that mobilize the subversion of identities and foster the emergence of political subjects. The collective Rima Central fosters a space-time that amplifies life, an aesthetic community responsible for producing a common dissent in police-like spaces, in addition to promoting cultural and identity self-valuation, constituting important networks of alliance and support for political emancipation and the celebration of peripheral and Potiguars aesthetic expression.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1160064 - KATIA MAHEIRIE
Externo à Instituição - MARCO AURÉLIO PRADO - UFMG
Interna - 426721 - MARIA TERESA LISBOA NOBRE PEREIRA
Externa à Instituição - TATIANA MINCHONI - UFSC