Tecendo po-éticas em três tons: linguagem, amor e medo em Valter Hugo mãe

Abstract

In this research, we discuss Valter Hugo Mãe's narrative in the light of the epistemology of affect. We studied language and its potential to affect the reader, thinking of it as an affect-language and the affect-representation constructed in VHM's narrative; we listed reflections on the affect of love in its potentialities and its absences, in order to exemplify its strength, based on the characters' experiences, and how it is an act and not a mere feeling; we discuss fear and all its power to neutralize the actions of the subjects of the narratives, emphasizing that this affection can be a psychic inhibition, but also a mechanism for maintaining power; and finally we deal with community, as something constructed by affections, in the meantime, we reflect on how Valter Hugo Mãe's narratives create communities. In all these themes, we try to investigate the ethics of affections that permeate the narrative of the Portuguese author, who also writes in such a way as to affect the reader, hence the term po-ethics, which we use in the title and develop throughout the study. We weave readings from the perspective of affections in the lines and between the lines of three novels by VHM: A máquina de fazer espanhóis, O Filho de mil homens and Homens imprudentemente poéticos. In order to elucidate the reading with this approach, we dialogued with authors who define and discuss affect, mainly with Baruch de Spinoza, Diana Klinger, Bell Hooks, Jean Delumeau and Vladimir Safatle. Our aim is to highlight the potential to affect and to conduct Our aim is to highlight the potential of the Portuguese author's narratives to affect and lead to action, both through the language-affect and the representation-affect of the characters.