Exame interno: Arquivo de silêncios em Domestic Violence, de Eavan Boland

Autores

  • Marcos Hernandez Universidad de La Laguna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197754

Palavras-chave:

Eavan Boland, Poesia irlandesa contemporânea, História irlandesa, Silêncio na literatura

Resumo

A revisão crítica das formas como a literatura representa o conflito entre voz e silêncio tem tradicionalmente levado a considerar a poesia como um gênero em que esse contraste adquire uma ressonância profunda. A partir da distribuição de suas pausas formais às lacunas de significado entre os níveis explícito e implícito da linguagem, o silêncio e o não dito podem ser definidos como componentes fundamentais para perceber o texto literário. No caso da poeta irlandesa, Eavan Boland, sua posição em relação a esse antagonismo tem sido criticamente estudada de acordo com seu desejo de, por meio de sua poesia, dar voz a todas aquelas mulheres irlandesas que foram historicamente silenciadas. Ao fazê-lo, o contraste entre esses dois extremos tem sido frequentemente ligado à distinção que ela faz entre história e passado e entre o poema público e o doméstico. Este ensaio analisará o fio condutor que une essas oposições por meio da leitura atenta de dois poemas de sua coletânea, Domestic Violence (2007). Além disso, serão explorados os silêncios de Boland não apenas como ato de dar voz ao mudo, mas também como uma expressão formal das camadas de significado escondidas sob o poema.

Biografia do Autor

  • Marcos Hernandez, Universidad de La Laguna

    Marcos Hernandez is an assistant lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of La Laguna (Spain). After obtaining his Master’s degree in Advanced English Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2019, his research profile has focused on the symbolic representation of trauma, silence and “the unsaid” as well as the depiction of time and chronology in contemporary British and Irish poetry and drama. Following the premises posited by these fields, these thematic questions have been applied to the works of poets such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Kimberly Campanello, and Eavan Boland, playwrights such as Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Brian Friel, and topics such as the events associated to the Irish Mother and Baby Homes. He has been awarded a collaboration scholarship in the Department of English and German Studies and the Award for Excellence in Academic Performance at the University of La Laguna. He is currently working on his PhD dissertation on the typologies of silence present in the works of the English poet Philip Larkin.  

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Publicado

2021-05-23

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v. 23 n. 2 (2021): ABEI Journal 23.2 Special Issue Eavan Boland — In Her Many Images

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Copyright (c) 2021 Marcos Hernandez

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Hernandez, M. (2021). Exame interno: Arquivo de silêncios em Domestic Violence, de Eavan Boland. ABEI Journal, 23(2), 89-104. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197754