Through thought, art and ethnography: The critical edge of Documents magazine
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.3.209-227Keywords:
ethnography, literary criticism, Bataille, Documents, Amerindian and Afro descendant writingsAbstract
The mid-2018 publication, in Portuguese, of the volume Documents – a collection of the essays and entries in a “critical dictionary” written by Georges Bataille, editor of the homonymous magazine (1929-1931) –, provides important tools for Brazilian criticism. The texts were carefully translated by specialized professor-researchers, highlighting the close relationship between fine arts, archeology and ethnography – characteristics of the French periodical. As a particularly witty, unconventional and inventive thinker, Bataille may open new epistemological and aesthetic perspectives for the evaluation of writings from hybrid or even predominantly non-Western cultures, now current alongside the philosophical and literary canons. This article discusses aspects of the now accessible material, exploring the counterpoint of questions raised about ninety years ago, with records and literary reworkings of mythology, put into circulation from peripheral spaces, featuring the diction and/or the signature of Amerindians and Afro descendants.
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