Poetry SLAMS - Literacy Literacies of Reexistence in/to the Contemporary World

Authors

  • C. A. B. Neves Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v30i2p92-112

Keywords:

Slam, Slammer, Oral poetry, Performative poetry, Literacy of Reexistence.

Abstract

A brand new phenomenon of oral and performative poetry known as slam is currently flourishing. It is a competition in which poets from the suburbs have their voices to be heard and remark everyday adversities in a socially engaged way. Addressing themes such as racism, violence, drugs, chauvinism, and sexism, those battles require a politicized audience, a listening and an active thinking. The slammers incorporate “voices from the margin” (HALL, 2003), “from the South” (MOITA LOPES, 2006), or “from the body” (DE CERTEAU, 1994). Moreover, by reciting authorial poems to a panel of five judges chosen among members of the audience, slammers became agents of a literacy of re-existence (SOUZA, 2011). The winner takes the books!

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Author Biography

  • C. A. B. Neves, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP

    Professora da Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp.

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Published

2017-10-27

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 2 (2017): Reading: Comprehensiveness and Strategies

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NEVES, C. A. B. Poetry SLAMS - Literacy Literacies of Reexistence in/to the Contemporary World. Linha D’Água, São Paulo, v. 30, n. 2, p. 92–112, 2017. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v30i2p92-112. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/linhadagua/article/view/134615.. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.