Abstract

IPIRANGA, Sarah Diva Silva. The waters of childhood: child and memory in the poetry of jáder de carvalho. child.philo [online]. 2013, vol.9, n.17, pp.25-42. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/110.12957/childphilo.2017.26725.

The Brazilian poet Jáder de Carvalho (1901-1985) uses the child as a constant motif in his verse. By memorializing his relation with his land of origin (the "hinterland"), Carvalho's poetic production, activated by his own memory resources, tracks the paths of childhood and their mediation by experience and educational process. Between family abandonment and a precocious understanding of the world, we visualize a boy who interacts with himself and the world from a singularized childhood perspective. The concepts of childhood and education are essential to understanding the lyricism of the author, because there is a strong emphasis on the forms of learning through which the child passes. In contrast to educational narratives (bildungsroman) that follow a sequenced route in order to present the characters' life-line, we realize that life-line in a fragmented and dispersed way in Carvalho's poetry, which represents the child without concern for linear temporal logic. The state of childhood surpasses chronology because adult and child are in that state on the same plane of discovery, indicating an educational process that remains in the poet in his old age. This study aims to examine the images of childhood in Carvalho's poetry and their relation to elements that are present in his childhood, such as hinterland, family, loneliness and time. Specifically, we investigate how the hinterland-- the original landscape of the author's experience--acts in a relational way with the child who appears in the poems, and how childhood and old age maintain a continuous flow of relations, pointing to a mobile and active dialogue between ages. With contributions from theoretical currents from philosophy of education (Montaigne, Benjamin, Lyotard, Agamben), literary theory (Bakhtin) and psychoanalysis (Ferenczi), we analyze how childhood and its journeys participate in Jáder de Carvalho's poetics.

Keywords : Childhood; Old age; Experience; Formation; Jáder de Carvalho.

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