The saraus of the peripheries of São Paulo: circuit and scene in movement

Abstract

In the periphery of São Paulo has been conforming since 2001 a new map that takes as points of reference literary spaces called "saraus of poetry" that are, to define them quickly, meetings in bars of several neighborhoods of the suburban regions of the city where residents declam or read their own or others' texts in front of an open microphone for a period of about two hours. These poetic spaces have been conforming a new cartography that is completed by a network of participants who goes from neighborhood to neighborhood following a schedule that completes the agenda of the week almost every day. The proposal of this article has to do with thinking the idea of cartography from two specific space conceptions generally linked to culture: the idea of "circuit" and its counterpart, that of "scene", in order to understand the dynamics and meanings that happen there.