Language, poetry, and rebellion in Douglas Diegues: cultural resistance and literary education

Abstract

Douglas Diegues’s work constitutes a precious example of the impact that literary education can have in the formation of the individual and in valuing the diversity of the Brazilian cultural heritage. Diegues’s proposal stands out for the utopian charge with which it promotes alternative models that combine literary elaboration and social commitment. Marking trait is the portunhol selvagem, a literary language that adopts the deviation from the norm as a sign of authenticity and exploits the expressive potential of the mixture of languages that compose it to weave a plurilingual space of apparent anarchy in which each element contributes in a specific and significant way to the construction of meaning.