Os corpos do poema: as aporias do lugar de fala em um texto da Escrita não Criativa

Abstract

This article begins by reading “The Body of Michael Brown”, by Kenneth Goldsmith. An exemplary text of Uncreative Writing, the poem opens a field of thought on the theory and practice of copy and appropriation writings. Through the construction of the text and its reception, with criticisms of a political nature, we were able to identify the place and responsibilities of the enunciation as problems dear to the poetics of the unoriginal. In order to study how this problem is constituted, we take as object the statements of the texts involved in the event of this poem. We resume, from it, the conceptual basis of Uncreative Writing. Oppose to this, we read theories that dispute “the problem of speaking for others”, such as Spivak and Alcoff. Among the contradictions of these perspectives, it ends up showing an instability of appropriation, as well as the need to study it in a broader, post-autonomous context, which takes into account its contexts and effects.