Performance do texto poético: a poesia slam e suas potencialidades na formação de leitores.

Abstract

Poetry Slam is a movement that was born in Chicago, USA, in 1984, and has been spreading all over the world, bringing a dynamic and engaged space for poetry battles that bring young people closer to the poetic universe. Its presence in Brazil began in 2008. However, the battles here have gained their own identity and signature. In Brazil, slam has moved out of closed and private spaces to occupy the streets, with peripheral spaces as its main stage. The people who take part in this scene, both from the point of view of the event's production and competition, as well as the audience, are also mostly peripheral, decentralized, whether from a gender, racial, ethnic, economic or cultural perspective. Despite what countless studies have shown us about the place poetry has among young people today, especially in education, which reveal a lesser place, slam poetry finds its largest audience in these subjects. Faced with this observation, we wondered what was so magnetic about these events and poetry to attract this audience. The hypotheses emerged: the performative dimension and the decentralization of subjects and knowledge. To this end, the question that guided us was: are there types of poetry that potentiate and are potentiated by the force of performance, which is decisive in the construction and consummation of their own poetics? If so, how would this happen? Thus, the general objective of this dissertation was to investigate, based on a comparative analysis of the written poem and its respective performance in slams, how the texts approach and distance themselves, and which elements of these performances are capable of structuring their own poetics. The specific objectives are: (a) to make a survey of anthologies that focus on the production of slam poetry by primary school students on the national scene; (b) to analyze the anthology From the street to the schools, from the schools to the streets; (c) to select three poems from the anthology, analyze them and compare them with their respective performance, available on Youtube; (d) to draw up a proposal for approaching the poetic text in the classroom that corroborates the formation of readers. This is a bibliographical and analytical study. Initially, we will start by contextualizing and defining slams in Brazil (Alcalde, 2024; Neves 2017, 2021; D'Alva, 2011, 2014), with their presence in poetic anthologies, also addressing the critical fortune on the subject. Next, we will look at the teaching of poetry (Amorim et al., 2022; Cosson, 2020; Pinheiro, 2018, 2020, 2024; Ribeiro, 2022; Pinheiro; Nóbrega, 2014), defending performance as a potential tool for working with poetry in the classroom, based on theorists who develop this concept (Zumthor, 2014; Rothenberg, 2006; Minarelli, 2010; Martins, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2023). Finally, we will draw up a proposal for an approach to poetry in the classroom.