Voice and turn

The poetry of 1970's

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to propose a discussion about the use of voice as a concept in a certain Brazilian literary criticism, re-reading a tradition that establishes a direct relationship between voice and power, as a tool to read the so called “marginal poetry”. This tradition establishes that one of the problems of Brazilian literature would be who has the right to speak, becoming truly democratic only when they could speak for themselves. However, as I propose, marginal poetry puts the problem in another perspective by bringing the question of listening to this scenario.
Keywords: Voice. Brazilian poetry. Historicity. Utterance. Discursive ballast.