Between verses and chains

the matter of the bicycle in Nicanor Parra's poetry

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v3i20.57394

Abstract

The concept of “carrocracia” (Trói, 2017) serves as a platform for problematizing the apparatuses of neoliberal domination – centered on radical individualism, hence the dominance of the private automobiles in the wake of urban planning under the road-centric logic – in the era of the Anthropocene and, why not say, in the era of the Capitalocene (Haraway, 2016). This study aims to investigate an aspect of the poetry of Chilean artist Nicanor Parra through the imagery/symbol of the bicycle: what is the role that this mode of transportation occupies in his poetics? Is there a deliberate tension between language and life in the repeated representation of the bicycle throughout his work? In the analysis, we integrate the repertoire deriving from literary criticism (Campos, A. de; Gallardo, 2004; Grandón, 2014; Valverde, 2022) with urban studies (Carmelini; Mizoguchi, 2022), as well as contributions from organized activism for bicycles and the right to the city (Ludd, 2005; Furness, 2013; Augé, 2009).

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Rafael Passos, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Master's student in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Program in Language Studies (PPgEL) at UFRN, in the line of research Poetics of Modernity and Postmodernity. Areas of interest: theory/criticism of literature and cinema.

Francisco Passos, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Graduated in History from UFRN. Master's student in Urban and Regional Studies (PPEUR), also at UFRN. Researching cycling in the municipality of Natal/RN. In terms of research, he is interested in topics such as Latin American history, urban mobility, cyclomobility, cycloactivism, the right to the city, urbanities, photography, literature, music, fashion.

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2024-12-04

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Passos, R., & Passos, F. . (2024). Between verses and chains : the matter of the bicycle in Nicanor Parra’s poetry. Revista Periódicus, 3(20), 166–184. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v3i20.57394

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Vol. 3 No. 20 (2024): Non binarity: an emerging idendity in contemporary Brazil

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