The Poetics of Relatedness. Identities and Unifying Distances in Svetlana Cârstean’s Writings Cover Image

Poetica relaţionării. Identităţi și distanţe unificatoare în scrierile Svetlanei Cârstean
The Poetics of Relatedness. Identities and Unifying Distances in Svetlana Cârstean’s Writings

Author(s): Graţiela Benga-Ţuţuianu
Subject(s): Romanian Literature, Theory of Literature, Ontology, Identity of Collectives, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: alterity; body; language; ontology; reconstruction;

Summary/Abstract: After outlining the mutations occurring in Svetlana Cârstean’s writing, the survey (focusing on different types of alterity) shows that her poetry has a stroboscopic effect. It creates a multidimensional representation and spurs the development of a special journey, that may find the joints between individuality and the world stage. Along this journey and throughout the meetings/ separations (not only as a splintered existence, but also as an attempt to resize the unknown by means of language), the poetic voice reveals mesmerizing ways of re-composing identities. Language is the basic tool used to substitute and reconstruct an assembly that, ontologically, measures distances that may split up and unify as well. As a consequence of the relational model (between content and content-holder), the experience of cruelty and suffering is transferred from the body to the level of language: the body becomes the communication channel of the dominant language.

  • Issue Year: X/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 408-417
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian