Migrations and peripheries: the rise of slam poetry

Abstract

This article compares the practice of slam performance poetry in the peripheries of some European countries with slam performances in Brazil. We note the contiguous concerns of marginalized communities and how they express poetically their way of occupying a place in the world. Based on concepts such as the third diaspora (Guerreiro, 2010) and artivism (Debord, 1997), among others, this article analyzes how these communities affirm their alterities in the dynamics of migration and post-colonization, as well as their claim for alternative versions of the official narrative and its inscription in the present.

Keywords:
slam poetry; periphery; migrations; artivism