Scenes of dissent in the poetry of Golgona Anghel: a dialogue with Jacques Rancière

Abstract

This article is dedicated to analyzing the ways of narrating “dissensus”, a concept proposed by Jacques Rancière, in the writings of contemporary Portuguese poet Golgona Anghel. In the works Like a plastic flower in a butcher’s shop window (2013), I came because they paid me (2011) and Swim in the little ones’ pool (2017), poems that maintain a narrative dialogue with the “rationality of dissent” will be analyzed. Rancière resorts to a detailed analysis of aesthetic effectiveness when associated with political action in its origin: the recognition of non-equality and the importance of breaking with the “scenes of words” that maintain the “machine of explanation”, based on the class struggle and, at the same time, on its perpetuation.