The essay focus on the details of clothing in the whole poetic corpus of the guyanese Léon-Gontran Damas (1912-1978). Clothes are seen as tools of investigation on the individual and social values, as instruments to tell the poet's position inside History, which throughout Colonialism and the Trade has produced annihilation, alienation and madness. By evocating details of clothing, the poetry of Damas has given a precocious contribution to the foundation of a literary space, within which the manifold contradictions of the postcolonial Caribbean world took form.
Lo studio cerca i dettagli del vestiario nell'intero corpus poetico del guyanese Léon-Gontran Damas (1912-1978), li presenta come strumenti di interrogazione sulle valenze individuali e sociali, come strumento per significare la sua posizione all'interno di una storia, quella coloniale e della tratta, che ha usato l'annientamento e ha prodotto alienazione e follia. Attraverso l'evocazione di dettagli del vestiario, la poesia di Damas ha dato un precoce contributo alla fondazione di uno spa-zio letterario nel quale le molteplici contraddizioni del mondo creolo e del mondo postcoloniale hanno trovato forma.
Léon Damas: essere o apparire attraverso il vestito
Antonella Emina
2015
Abstract
The essay focus on the details of clothing in the whole poetic corpus of the guyanese Léon-Gontran Damas (1912-1978). Clothes are seen as tools of investigation on the individual and social values, as instruments to tell the poet's position inside History, which throughout Colonialism and the Trade has produced annihilation, alienation and madness. By evocating details of clothing, the poetry of Damas has given a precocious contribution to the foundation of a literary space, within which the manifold contradictions of the postcolonial Caribbean world took form.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
