Marthya de Abdel Hamid, segundo Alberto Pimenta - about the earth and the body – scorched; but also about the heart ruling life
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i32.130587Keywords:
portuguese poetry, Alberto Pimenta, Orientalism, “otherness”, Edward Said, Judith ButlerAbstract
Departing from the concept of orientalism, developed in 1978 by Edward Said, and later expanded in his book Culture and Imperialism (1993), I will discuss the topics of "precarious life" and "materiality of the body", proposed by Judith Butler, and apply them to a poem by Alberto Pimenta called Marthyia de Abdel Hamid (2005). I will try to show how this poem denounces the social construction of the "other" - the non-Western - as a menacing stranger and how poetry can, through its condition of feasible utopia, prove that "the smolder left from a scorched land / does not last forever".
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