Fictionalization of you and other performatic traces in poems & insults, from Bukowski
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https://doi.org/10.5433/boitata.2017v12.e32961Keywords:
Voice, Performance, Fictionalization, Bukowski, Oral circulation of written poems.Abstract
This article deals with the composition and circulation context of Charles Bukowski's Poems & Insults’ performance, and also intents a brief analysis of the poetry reading recorded in 1973 (it’s imperative to distinguish between the analysis of the actual performance and of the recorded media), emphasizing the imbrication of cultural forms in the American society, whose national identity privileged popular culture. The concept of performance is presented according to the definitions proposed by Bert States, Peggy Phelan, Paul Zumthor, Mikel Dufrenne, Richard Schechner, Irving Goffman, Ruth Finnegan, and Richard Bauman, and the poetry reading is analyzed according to the displayed performative features and the fictionalization of self by the author, who performatizes his literary persona on stage, instead of “himself”. Thus, written poems are turned into brief narratives during performatization, changing the original sensations and meanings of the written text by the medium of the voice, received by the "speech community" that gathered around the historic City Lights bookstore.References
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MEDEIROS, Fernanda Texeira de. Palavra Cantada: ensaios sobre poesia, música e voz. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2008.
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LUBBOCK, Percy. The craft of fiction. London: Jonathan Cape Publishing Firm, reprint, 1960.
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PANDEY, Ashish. Academic dictionary of fiction. Isha Books, 2005.
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ZUMTHOR, Paul. Introdução à poesia oral. Tradução de Jerusa Pires Ferreira, Maria Inês de Almeida, Maria Lúcia Diniz Pochat. São Paulo, SP: Editora Hucitec, 1997.
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2017-12-27
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Velasco, S. (2017). Fictionalization of you and other performatic traces in poems & insults, from Bukowski. Boitatá, 12(24), 264–276. https://doi.org/10.5433/boitata.2017v12.e32961
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