Theatrics of language and contemporary poetry

Abstract

This article intends to discuss the naming processes operated by contemporary writing, especially, in the work of two poets, Paula Glenadel and Nathalie Quintane, in their books respectively, A fábrica do feminino (2008) and Chaussure (1997). The gestures that formulate definitions, apply attributes, create tropisms and, at the same time, deconstruct them, shall be taken in this reflection insofar as they put the naming process itself in checkmate in this writing experience. With this, is established a relation between voice (to want to say) and language (to be obliged to say) that implies the confrontation of one of the more radical formulations of modern poetry, to rework the relation between the writing of poetry - of the verse - and the production of a thought that remains ethical. This process of naming and renaming will be called in this article the theatricalities of language.