Aka to kuro (1923-4), as cores da revolta em uma revista poética improvável

Abstract

The text aims to concisely present, discuss and translate texts from the poetic magazine Aka to kuro, Red and Black (1923-24), founded by, among others, Hagiwara Kyōjirō (1899-1938), a pioneering and relevant Japanese poet with Dadaist-anarchist tendencies. To this end, the manifestos that gave the magazine its cohesion will be focused on through translation and subsequent discussion. Then, the most representative poems from each of the magazine’s five editions will be selected, translated, and briefly commented on (the translation process and the original), with the aim of tracing the characteristics and changes that the magazine underwent during its existence. The aim of the text is to contextualize and introduce Portuguese readers to this unfamiliar, unlikely, rebellious side of Japanese poetry that has so far been little discussed and, at the same time, to think about translation strategies for the heterodox stylistic resources used.