Another word under a word: Max Martins: for a poetics of erasure

• Grant number: 23/05835-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2023
• End date: April 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Sterzi de Carvalho Júnior
• Grantee: Leila Melo Coroa
• Supervisor: Osvaldo Silvestre
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade de Coimbra (UC), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/02252-6 - Another word under word. Max Martins: for a poetics of erasure, BP.DR

Abstract

The present thesis project proposes to investigate Max Martins' poetry in the line of force and in the procedure of the "erasure". The research will have a bibliographical nature, and will contemplate 10 books of poems by Max Martins and a diary book, a visual art book, published during his lifetime, between the 1950s and the 2000s. It is also intended to contemplate an unpublished collection of the artist, consisting of literary and plastic material, which the author called "diaries", currently in possession and in the process of organization by the Museum of the Federal University of Pará, in Belém. This corpus will be selected for the purpose of a critical analysis on the specific aspect of erasure. The poems and collages of different textualities from the diaries, in which the procedure of erasure is manifested in its variations, will be mapped and analyzed. The aim is to study the procedure of erasure as fundamental in Max's work, taking Deconstruction as an operation of erasure, as a device of difference, which is realized as indeterminacy, delay and collage of poetry, that is, superposition of materialities. The difference is thought from the figuration of the second person in the poetic discourse, the addressing, the displacement of the images of the Amazon and the opening of identity, figured in poems of signature and counter-signature. The analysis of the texts and the thinking of Max's poetry are approached primarily with Jacques Derrida (the Deconstruction). (AU)