LANGUAGE AS IDENTITY: STYLISTIC TRAITS IN ADAILTON'S WRITING

Abstract

Considering the multiple possibilities of linguistic and literary analyses, the present research aims to explore, in the light of stylistics, the expressive resources present in the works Revoltoso Ribamar Palmeira (1978) and CristóVÃO Cristo: Imitações (1976), written by the Caxias author Adailton Medeiros. Amid a historical novel of 10 chapters depicting the 1951 Strike, a set of sixty short poems with a single stanza on various themes, and seven “pre-texts” dedicated to familiar figures in literature and the author's own family, the linguistic-expressive aspects brought forth in the books analyzed here are responsible for conferring aesthetic and expressive potential to the literary text, making it more singular, attractive, intriguing, and enjoyable to read. Such aspects also result in the encouragement of the reader's creation of meanings, facilitated by the vast interpretative possibilities. In this way, this article aims to expose how the poet's stylistic choices influence the formation of his literary discourse, carrying anxieties, criticisms, and life experiences that use words as a means of exposure and expression, signifying the Adailtonian journey within the literary and academic milieu. The theoretical framework of the study includes: Henriques (2011), Cherubim (1984), Rocha (2014), among others, who confirm the linguistic expressive potential safeguarded in the texts of the Maranhese/Caxias writer.