O locus fragmentado na poesia pós-colonial de Rupi Kaur e o eco de um entre-lugar

Abstract

Home Body, published in 2020, is Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur's third book. Considering Home Body as our object, poems and accompanying images have been analysed taking into account critical comments on the postcolonial and identity. These two forms of expressions, the word and the image, may be considered a way whereby Rupi Kaur inscribes herself in the world while also writing (about) other people. Recognising Rupi Kaur's role in society and contemporary literature, this work aimed to answer the following question: how and in which ways does the fragmented locus in Kaur's postcolonial poetry allow her to transit in the echo of an in-between? Of bibliographical and qualitative aspect, this research uses theoretical contributions by names such as Hall (2006), Castells (2018), Bonnici (1998, 2005), Bhabha (1998), Silva (2000), Collins (2020), Hall (2003), Glissant (2005), Ribeiro (2017), Teixeira (2009), Paradiso (2009), Kilomba (2020) Fanon (1968), Spivak (2010) and others. To sum up, this research was developed taking into consideration the forms of representation of the poetic voice of the writer. With this aim, it followed the postcolonial thinking and the fragmented locus, identity and the in-between were given a definition. It was possible to understand, thus, that writing about postcolonial theories represents an attempt to insert marginalised subjects in the category of humans, especially because social categorisations and classifications may build walls between individuals, which become untrespassable. These very intersectional categorisations are the resources which position subjects in an in-between without any space for self-representation and autonomy over their own languague to speak and resist for themselves. Given the consequences of social categorisations, postcolonial literatures make room for these diasporic bodies, without a house and a home, to draw, write and restructure a place for themselves. Following the steps of postcolonial thinking, the marginalised subject construct little by little a place of belonging.