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On a Knife-Edge - The Poetry of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (Hardcover)
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On a Knife-Edge - The Poetry of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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On a Knife-Edge represents the first book-length study in English
solely devoted to the work of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999),
one of Brazil's foremost poets of the twentieth century and a
unique voice within Brazilian Modernism. It concentrates on the
poet's later works, from A escola das facas (1980) to Andando
Sevilha (1990), providing a comprehensive overview of a body of
work which has so far attracted limited critical attention. Sara
Brandellero reviews traditional readings of Cabral as a poet of
clarity and precision, and demonstrates how ambiguity in language,
imagery, and even structure was an integral part of his writing and
contributed to the political impact of his work. The blurring of
the opposition between life and death through the image of the
knife-edge, central to the first of the works examined, provides a
productive starting point for the analysis of the role of the
in-between space, (or 'entre-lugar', as defined by Silviano
Santiago) in Cabral's writing. The knife-edge reflects the poet's
obsession with the transience of existence and conveys the violence
and deprivation of his native Brazil, where life is in a constant
state of flux. On a meta-textual level, it encapsulates Cabral's
vision of his writing as a continual negotiation of the boundaries
between poetry and prose, and evokes his sense of the elusiveness
of language and of the endless possibilities that the act of
writing implies. Thus, the in-between space gave Cabral new scope,
as a postcolonial writer, to enter in dialogue with poetic
tradition at home and abroad. Through his resistance to rigid
categorizations, such as in representations of gender, and thematic
exploration of grey areas such as haunting, insoluble crimes, or
even the labyrinthine geography of Seville, he sought to unmask the
inequities of Brazil's past and the challenges of its present.
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