Text, image, visuality in contemporary Brazilian literature

Abstract

The significant increase, in recent decades, of the production of literary works strongly marked by the inclusion of photographs, the appropriation and collage of documents, and graphic and typographic manipulations, among other operations carried out at the textual, paratextual and perigraphic levels, has required a reexamination as we approach analytically them. If thinking about the relationship between literature and image meant predominantly reflecting on the production of poetic images through linguistic tropes, the increasing processes of image fixation and other forms of visuality on the printed page today require the reader to consider literature as a complex object, marked by the transit of languages and by technical modes of articulation of meaning. It is within this perspective that this article will seek to map the emergency conditions of this phenomenon within the contemporary Brazilian literature and propose some forms of analytical articulation between literature, image and visuality today.