Acessibilidade / Reportar erro

Layered Voices: The Archipelago in Motion

Abstract

The cultural formation of the Latin American continent amplifies, in all degrees and variants, the presence of voices, oral traditions and nature, whether combined with countless written series and genres or not. It is important to unfold the three levels of language in their interactions, constitutive of the cultural processes of Latin America and the Caribbean, which draw from the Ibero-Amerindian and Afro-Arabic crucibles. It is the interweaving of that layers that underpins a multiple Baroque style from the start. The Baroque presence in the continent cannot be understood without the intercultural turn in which oral traditions are nuanced, amidst the superabundance of mestizaje, with their acoustic series. From this conglomerate of marginal variants emerges what we have called a self-moving palimpsest archipelago, where the casual forms of the excessive peripheries do not fit within the linear and causal logical-interpretive schemes of Western tradition and reason, since, among other procedures, they radicalize the figures of metonymic proliferation and oxymoron.

Keywords:
baroque; voices; Latin America; multiplicity; knowledge

Programa de Pos-Graduação em Letras Neolatinas, Faculdade de Letras -UFRJ Av. Horácio Macedo, 2151, Cidade Universitária, CEP 21941-97 - Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil , - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil
E-mail: alea.ufrj@gmail.com