Abstract
The main aim of this article is to reframe Josefina Ludmer’s concept of post-autonomy as a privileged benchmark for reading Brazilian contemporary poetry. In the first instance, this research will reconsider the controversy about post-autonomy through a recovery of Walter Benjamin’s dialectic of semblance and play. Finally, this paper will focus on a derivative aesthetic autonomy, through its reformulation as a contingent autonomy.
Keywords
post-autonomy; Brazilian contemporary poetry; semblance and play