Pessoa bancando os beats ... e o crédito dissipado da revolução surrealista
This essay examines three texts from the late 1980s that present parodies and recontextuali-zations of Fernando Pessoa: Allen Ginsberg's “Salutations to Fernando Pessoa” (1988), Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Love in the Days of Rage (1988), and Mário Cesariny's O Virgem Negra (1989). The co...
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| Language: | English |
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Brown University
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Pessoa Plural |
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| Online Access: | https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:78ramn4a/PDF/ |
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| Summary: | This essay examines three texts from the late 1980s that present parodies and recontextuali-zations of Fernando Pessoa: Allen Ginsberg's “Salutations to Fernando Pessoa” (1988), Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Love in the Days of Rage (1988), and Mário Cesariny's O Virgem Negra (1989). The comparison brings the American beat generation closer to Portuguese surrealism-abjectionism, revealing shared themes and literary mechanisms in the treatment of Pessoa's “cadavre exquis.” The three authors juxtapose their own ambitions for poetic-political revolution against the hazardous accumulation of Pessoa's national prestige and the ethnocentric implications of expansive literary projects. To escape the monolithism of cultural co-optation, they weave an intertextual network largely imitative of Pessoa's styles, which short-circuits yet expands as these styles are reconfigured in new contexts of meaning. |
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| ISSN: | 2212-4179 |