PAISAGENS POSSÍVEIS. MACAU NA POESIA DE ALBERTO ESTIMA DE OLIVEIRA可能存在的風景：艾斯蒂瑪‧奧利維拉詩歌中的澳門
This article investigates the “possible landscapes” of Macau in the poetry of Alberto Estima de Oliveira, arguing that the city emerges less as a descriptive referent than as a space of language, perception, and silence. The author maintains that, in the poet’s work, the relationship between word an...
Saved in:
| Published in: | Review of Culture |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Articles |
| Published: |
Instituto Cultural de Macau
July 2009
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40031/3599 |
| Summary: | This article investigates the “possible landscapes” of Macau in the poetry of Alberto Estima de Oliveira, arguing that the city emerges less as a descriptive referent than as a space of language, perception, and silence. The author maintains that, in the poet’s work, the relationship between word and urban space produces a gaze that excavates what lies hidden beneath tourist and cartographic evidence: voids, intervals, and silences become conditions of the very act of reading. Methodologically, the research combines close reading of excerpts (with particular attention to poems such as “Alto contraste” and to the recurrence of motifs of silence throughout books such as O Diálogo do Silêncio, Infraestruturas, O Rosto, Esqueleto do Tempo and Estrutura I: O Sentir) with an interpretive contrast between the poetic experience of the city and the “evident” perception conveyed by postcards and simplifying images. As its main conclusions, the text argues that Estima de Oliveira’s poetics displaces Macau from the field of representation to that of the habituation of the gaze: the city is rediscovered as a social and mental “body” in mutation, traversed by memories, affections, and uncertainties, especially in the historical context following the 1999 transfer. Thus, the research proposes that thinking Macau through poetry also entails rethinking urban experience itself in the face of the disappearance of stable referents. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |