Livable interstices of everyday life: existential possibilities in the humanizing poetry of Maya Angelou

Abstract

The everyday is understood as a set of actions that, in turn, are performed repeatedly day by day. However, everyday life is not only about this concept, which reduces all of its totality, but also as a space of In(re)novation and humanization, since it provides possibilities for reflections on each of the acts produced to postmodern man. Therefore, through this, new perspectives and ways of seeing the world, of thinking and doing things take shape within everyday life. Based on these aspects, the research proposed to analyze the tensions produced around the representation of the daily life and its discursive and existential dimensions. For this purpose, the representation of everyday life was taken as a point of convergence, in order to relate it to the impotence and discouragement that in Maya Angelou's poems (1928-2014) are enhanced in communicational and ontological perspectives. In this way, we sought to highlight everyday life as a poetic material through the thematic configurations in modernity, which articulate interstices and existential possibilities, which by aesthetic effectiveness are able to relate the reflexes of life in its expressive totality. Aspect by which the quotidian appears as a socio-historical category and, therefore, intersubjective - full of humanizing meanings, by the Angelou’s poetic diction.