A LÍRICA ENCARCERADA - A POESIA TESTEMUNHAL DE ALEX POLARI

Abstract

This article presents and discuss critically some aspects of the writings and poems in the works Inventário de cicatrizes (1978) and Camarim de prisioneiro (1980), by Alex Polari de Alverga, from the perspective of testimony literature. To this end, we will discuss a corpus of poems that represent, in theme and form, social and historical tensions based on the traumatic experience of a survivor of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985). As the author himself says in a letter, his poetry is a “vomit” of those who survived a repressive context, which required new configurative means in the face of the impacts of torture. In this sense, it is a production that seeks to get closer to society in order to fight against the erasure of the violence imposed by the dictatorial regime in question. For this purpose, we will use mainly Benjamin and Frantz Fanon as a theoretical support for the debate regarding violence and Ginzburg, Salgueiro and Seligmann to understand the representation and testimony literature.