Bastard forms: reportage and anonymous life
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2014.83562Keywords:
Reportage, visibility, anonymity, field.Abstract
From its rising in modern times, the reportage has been considered a bastard form, due to its hybrid condition, found between fiction and fact. This essay investigates the notion of bastardy and argues that there is an injunction between the so called “impure genre” of some reportages and their aim at illuminating anonymous and abandoned social life. These narratives engender their own sensitive order – that is quite different from the sensitive in literature itself – while they highlight invisible people and social fields. Thus, this text evokes the notion of “fields” in Giorgio Agamben (2010), understood as being “zones of exception” in our society, where people live beneath a citizenship line and which are persistently denounced by the reportage.
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