Stella fora de si: um falatório em campo expandido

Abstract

This dissertation explores the aesthetics of poetics emerging in Stella do Patrocínio’s (2022) falatório, an insurgent form of language that disrupts the colonial pattern of reason and prioritizes the intersections of madness, race, gender, and exclusion in Brazil. The research is based on this resistant act of speech that reverberates marginalized experiences, which were previously disregarded. The overall aim is to investigate how Stella do Patrocínio’s falatório challenges the literary standardizations of the canon, proposing a reading of her production in the light of non-specificity and post-autonomous literature. To this end, the study analyzes a dual dimension: on the one hand, the audio recordings and their transcriptions; on the other, the excerpts compiled and transformed into poetry, assembled and edited by Mosé (2001). The central question is to understand how falatório can be read as both an aesthetic and political manifestation that challenges literary and social norms, while simultaneously strengthening marginalized forms of representation. The hypothesis put forward is that these linguistic manifestations, here called falatório, nonspecific discourses, or speaking bodies—a concept coined from Martins’ theory (2021)—act synchronously as expressions of subjectivity and as political acts of resistance to the normative impositions of a society traversed by racial, class, and mental health inequality. The analysis demonstrates that this poetics contributes to refining the understanding of the expressive possibilities of marginality, strengthening identities and fostering social inclusion through insurgent art. At this juncture, a theoretical approximation is proposed between Stella’s word and Didi-Huberman’s (2015) critique of the image, aiming to promote a historical rescue and the liberation of these bodies—violated, marginalized, and marked by institutionalization.