Photographed Metaphors: Meaning, Reference, and Translation in Manoel de Barros

Authors

  • Axel Perez Trujillo Diniz University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21992/T9HD02

Keywords:

Poetry, Pantanal, Manoel de Barros, Adriana Lafer, Photography

Abstract

This article explores Brazilian poet Manoel de Barros’ collaboration with photographer Adriana Lafer in Arquitetura do silêncio (2015). The meta discourse on language that emerges in the book challenges meaning, reference, and translation as a means to transfigure the modes of seeing the Pantanal biome in Brazil, shifting our focus to the insignificant and abandoned things strewn across the ground. By reading Barros alongside Frege and Quine, this article argues in favour of the profound awareness of language in the Brazilian poet’s work, an awareness that culminates in the blurring of words and images in Arquitetura.

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Author Biography

Axel Perez Trujillo Diniz, University of Alberta

Axel Perez Trujillo Diniz is a PhD candidate in Spanish and Latin American Studies, researching the imagined geographies of the plains in South America.

Published

2017-07-22

Issue

Section

TRANSLATION STUDIES