Variações sobre o tema Eurídice

A figura mítica de Eurídice ressurge na poesia contemporânea de autoria feminina com renovas significações. O presente artigo lê textos poéticos de Margaret Atwood, Juana Rosa Pita, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, explicitamente referidos ou vinculados de modo mais livremente alusivo a sua figura, entrelaçando a escritura reflexiva e a experiência criativa ficcional como parte de um projeto autoral em desenvolvimento. Estas notas vão acompanhadas de um conjunto de poemas que interpretam variações sobre o tema de Eurídice.

Terror and Erebus by Gwendolyn MacEwen: White Technologies and the End of Science

<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">This paper examines Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen’s verse play </span><em><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">Terror and </span></em><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;"><em>Erebus </em></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">by considering the play’s representation of technology in light of its own </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">poetic technologies. </span><em><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">Terror and Erebus </span></em><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">is a play for voices that features four </span>characters: Franklin, Crozier, Rasmussen, and Qaqortingneq. As the character Rasmussen searches for the traces of the lost expedition, imagining the voices of the explorers in their final hours, his investigation reveals how the “white technologies” used to explore the Arctic succumb to the environment without the indigenous knowledge possessed by the Inuit who inhabit the Arctic. The paper shows how MacEwen’s literary vision contrasts recent coverage of efforts to locate the Franklin ships which have ignored or down-played Inuit testimony. Working from Rasmussen’s transcriptions of Qaqortingneq’s voice, MacEwen represents Inuit knowledge and technology as both an alternative to the model of scientific discovery underwriting the Franklin expedition and as source of the authoritative account of what happened to Franklin and his crew.</p>