I wished to learn the language of trees: the ecological image in the poetics of Manoel de Barros
Manoel de Barros. Nature. Language. Poetry.
This thesis, still under construction, proposes a study on the ecological image in the poetry of Manoel de Barros, based on a dialogue between literary studies, philosophy, biology and other knowledge. The first chapter reads Barros' poetry taking into account debates about the epistemological turn, the anthropocene and the community. For this, I draw on the thoughts of Walter Benjamin, Georges Didi-Huberman, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Bruno Latour, Ailton Krenatk. The second chapter presents a discussion about the animal in Barros' poetry and features contributions from Maria Esther Maciel, Jennifer Ackerman, Peter Wohlleben, Jacques Derrida. The third and fourth chapters, yet to be written, will be intended to investigate, respectively, vegetal and material knowledge in Barros' literature, based on studies by Stefano Mancuso, Merlin Sheldrake, Peter Wohlleben and Evando Nascimento, Walter Benjamin, Georges Didi -Huberman. The research investigates the poetics against the grain of Manoel de Barros, who seeks to get closer to elements of nature, living kingdoms, and abandoned beings.