Francisco Granizo: el poeta que invoca el momento primigenio (In memoriam)

Michelena Otero, Sofía Gabriela","ECUADOR","SIGLO XX","2011","Este artículo está dedicado a uno de los poetas más lúcidos y coherentes de la poesía ecuatoriana: Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira (Quito, 1925-2009). En una primera parte, se desarrollan algunos aspectos biográficos del poeta, esto permitirá que los lectores se acerquen de una manera mucho más humana y familiar a la vida de Granizo, conozcan al niño y al hombre que fue y, así, se intuyan ciertas características que están reflejadas en su poesía. Granizo nunca mencionó nada de su vida personal, nadie lo buscó para saber de él ni de su trabajo académico y diplomático, por esta razón es importante hacerlo aquí, para reivindicar su labor de poeta y de hombre de cultura. Luego se realiza un análisis de los tres ejes temáticos relevantes en la poesía de Granizo. En primer lugar, el amor, ese eterno desencuentro con el ser amado que representa y se fusiona al tiempo con la naturaleza, con Dios, con el momento primigenio y, al final, con la muerte. En segundo lugar, el misticismo, ese ímpetu religioso que gobierna la relación hombre-Dios y que obliga a que la voz poemática permanezca en una constante búsqueda de lo absoluto, es decir, del Origen. Y, en tercer lugar, la blasfemia, ese momento caótico, desesperante y contradictorio que surge como una consecuencia del fracaso amoroso y místico.

O Barroco Hispano-americano: primero sueño ou Sor Juana Inés de La Cuz

The current dissertation is linked to the research line Poéticas da modernidade e da pós-modernidade (modern and post modern poetics), which is being developed for the Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem (Program of post graduation in language studies), in the area of Literatura Comparada (comparative literature) CCHLA/UFRN. The main aim of the research is to show the reading of Primero sueño by sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, in the middle of the contemporary age, through an eclectic analysis which elucidates the baroque in its most recent concept; the social context and the life as a nun of sor Juana and the analysis of the poetry starting from the glance to the literary text. The perception of the baroque eon universal as a constant artistic movement from its appearance to the present time thus highlighted based on the most modern studies by the baroque specialists: Eugênio d Ors, O barroco (s/d), Severo Sarduy, Barroco (s/d) and Gilles Deleuze, A dobra: Leibniz e o barroco (1991). In that research, it will be presented the translation/transcreation of the study object corpus still guided by the translatological theories of Haroldo de Campos (2004), Da tradução como criação e como crítica, Walter Benjamin (1971), A tarefa do tradutor and Jacques Derrida (2006), Torres de Babel

Bosquejos americanos: a intuição de uma identidade americana na poesia de Gonçalves dias (1823-1864)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A questão da autoria feminina na poesia de Emily Dickinson

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Dilemas na tradução de Muse & Drudge (Musa E Mula), de Harryette Mullen: negritude, dissonância e miscigenação

This paper aims to discuss a project of translating part of the work Muse & Drudge, by the award-winning African-American poet Harryette Mullen, into Brazilian Portuguese, with focus on a single poem. In Muse & Drudge Mullen combines cultural critique with humor, lyricism and punning, which has unfolded the frontiers between cultural and racial identity, and has put into question the opposition between popular and high culture. This work analyzes to which extent the proposed translation produces a new set of intertextual relations that might culminate in “unexpected” meanings. It is a goal to understand how the effects of such “unexpected” meanings reveal the “encounter” between the so-called racial “black/white” dichotomy, predominant in the US culture, and the notion of “miscegenation” and “racial democracy” in Brazil.

A poesia de Harryette Mullen e a (des)construção da mulher e de suas fronteiras

Harryette Mullen is a contemporary African-American poet whose work has been increasingly analyzed and commented upon in American literary circles. Along her poetic career, one can identify the development of a complex relationship with the construction of the (black) female identity. Early in her career such construction involved the affirmation of a safer, if not “truthful” locus that could encompass the meaning of the female existence, which has ultimately come to develop a deconstruction, in her current poetry, of any centrality or essentiality in the search for a an authentic female identity. Translations of her poems will be presented in order to investigate their implication for understanding the fragmented body of the contemporary woman.

O papel da tradução na construção da identidade da literatura afro-americana no Brasill

This paper discusses the role of translation in the construction of the identity of African-American literature in Brazil, by considering the relations between the Brazilian sociocultural context, infl uenced by biological and cultural miscegenation, and the particular way that the literary criticism represented by essays and translations of the Brazilian critic Sergio Milliet, published in between the 40’s and 60’s, approaches AfricanAmerican poetry, with special focus on Langston Hughes’ poems. In this paper, differences between Brazilian and American racial contexts are brought into light in regard to the discourses on miscegenation and race. It is discussed the extent to which Sergio Milliet developed a racialized identity for African-American poetry in his essays, which, however, was rebuilt through translation, in his anthology Obras Primas da Poesia Universal, with a less racialized perspective so that African-American aesthetics could sound less dissonant and regional and more inclined towards the principle of universality which characterizes the anthology composed of renowned foreign and Brazilian poets.

Mais ou menos negra? Questões de negritude, tradução e a poesia de Harryette Mullen

This paper addresses issues regarding my translation of selected poems by Harryette Mullen, a rising African-American contemporary poet, whose dense poetry works on the black oral tradition, the experimentalism of writing, the (African-American) pop music, in addition to delving into issues such as the representation of (black) female sexuality. One of the complex aspects of her poetry is the notion of miscegenation, conceived as an aesthetic argument and as a constitutive condition of the identity of multiracial Americans. This concept establishes a textuality that questions the accessible intelligibility generally expected from black American poetry, insofar as a mosaic of dissonant voices are brought to light in her text, which makes it difficult to categorize. In Brazil, especially among politically engaged Afro-Brazilians, there has been criticism towards the praise of miscegenation, since the latter has been considered to support of the myth of racial democracy. Building on these aspects, we investigate the extent to which it is a challenge to translate her poetry – based on miscegenation and hybridity as aesthetic constructs – especially when taking into account the discursive locus of readers identified with an Afro-Brazilian aesthetic, particularly critical of miscegenation. From the point of view of translation, we evaluate the extent to which her poetry could be read by the predominant cultural discourse in Brazil, inclined to favor miscegenation as an integral concept of national identity, as a seductively experimental poetry. In view of this, one wonders whether this perspective makes hers poetry “less black” for Afro-Brazilian literary standards.

Jorge de Lima no contexto da poesia negra americana

O presente ensaio se propõe a examinar o contexto de publicação dos Poemas negros (1947) de Jorge de Lima, buscando, primeiramente, historiar a formação e a consolidação do cânone da poesia afro-americana para, em seguida, rastrear sua repercussão no cenário literário brasileiro dos anos 1930 e 1940, em particular, na Revista Acadêmica, responsável pela edição do livro de Jorge de Lima. Por fim, o ensaio examina os Poemas negros à luz dessa repercussão, considerando os limites ou as contradições ideológicas de seu projeto poético.

Arte de la conjugación : algunas reflexiones acerca de Octavio Paz y la vanguardia

La circunstancia de haberse iniciado la obra de Octavio Paz en pleno auge de las vanguardias y de haber evolucionado hasta mucho después de acabado el período de efervescencia de éstas facilita que sirva de modelo del conflictivo diálogo entre lenguajes prontamente dominantes y lenguajes emergentes, signados por la ruptura y el intento de renovación. En este contexto, el objetivo principal de este trabajo es ahondar en torno a los vínculos entre la obra de Paz y la corriente surrealista, proponiendo un tercer modo de relación entre ambos que no ha sido abordado suficientemente por la crítica. Para ello se analizarán aspectos de su obra crítica y de su poesía, en especial la contenida en Poemas (1935-1975) reeditados en 1981, para destacar el lugar que la memoria de un poeta definitivamente consagrado todavía reservaba a su experiencia surrealista "tangencial".

El mito revisitado en The World doesn't end, de Charles Simic

Este artículo realiza un acercamiento al libro de poemas en prosa The World Doesn’t End, del poeta serbio-norteamericano Charles Simic. En el poemario se advierten dos rasgos fundamentales que contribuyen a configurar la visión del mundo que Simic desarrolla a lo largo de su extensa producción: por un lado, la creación de un universo de ribetes surrealistas y, por otro, una nostalgia por el pasado como tiempo perdido, recuperable solamente a través de la imaginación. The World Doesn’t End, publicado en Estados Unidos en 1990, fue traducido al español por Mario Lucarda en España, y ha llegado nuestro país solamente mediante versiones de algunos de los poemas en prosa en publicaciones periódicas. Es por eso que se propone, al final del artículo, una breve selección de textos traducidos al español, para contribuir a la difusión de este autor que manifiesta, con su obra, una de las múltiples voces de la poesía norteamericana contemporánea.

La crítica editada. Juan María Gutiérrez y la América poética

La aparición de la América poética -primera colección de poesía hispanoamericana- entre febrero de 1846 y junio de 1847, constituyó un evento singular para la cultura letrada latinoamericana. En efecto, la antología configuró por primera vez un mapa americanista de la poesía en lengua hispana, encumbrándose como patrimonio cultural y capital simbólico diferenciado de la cultura española. A su vez, la antología marcó un hito en la producción crítica e historiográfica de Juan María Gutiérrez. Las lecturas de la América poética, en general, estuvieron orientadas a indagar en su capacidad representativa. Este trabajo, en cambio, propone una lectura centrada en la figura de redactor (figura autoral, aunque diferida), y una revisión de las prácticas de edición a partir de las anotaciones manuscritas que realizó Gutiérrez al volumen original, que hoy se conserva en la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación