Rattling the establishment: a decolonial reading of Katja Perat’s poetry

Michelson, Seth (author)

This essay reads the poetry of the Slovenian poet Katja Perat as a means to examine existential possibility within and beyond the conditions of its creation. To that end, the essay invokes a decolonial theoretical framework that critiques the Eurocentricity of the epistemology of rationality/modernity. That framework suits Perat’s poetry, which similarly interrogates the limits of that Eurocentric epistemology. Thus, the analytical framework helps to illuminate the liberatory ethic of Perat’s poetry, which artfully and defiantly seeks greater existential possibility and therefore justice for her readers.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Slovenian literature, Slovenian poetry, Slovenian women poets, Slovenian contemporary poetry, decoloniality, justice
• Typology: 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 155-160
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136134
• UDC: 821.163.6-1.09Perat K.
• DOI: 10.4312/Obdobja.40.155-160
• COBISS.SI-ID: 89633795
• Publication date in RUL: 13.04.2022

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Slovenska poezija
• Editors: Darja Pavlič
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete
• Year: 2021
• ISBN: 978-961-06-0542-3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 83371267
• Collection title: Obdobja
• Collection numbering: 40
• Collection ISSN: 1408-211X

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Prispevek razume poezijo slovenske pesnice Katje Perat kot način preučevanja eksistencialne možnosti v okoliščinah njenega nastanka in onstran njih. V ta namen se opira na dekolonialni teoretski okvir, ki kritizira evropocentričnost epistemologije racionalnosti/ modernosti. Ta okvir je primeren za poezijo Katje Perat, ki na podoben način preizprašuje meje evropocentrične epistemologije. Analitični okvir tako pomaga osvetliti osvobodilno etiko poezije Katje Perat, ki spretno in drzno išče boljše eksistencialne možnosti in s tem pravičnost za svoje bralce.

• Keywords: sodobna slovenska poezija, dekolonialnost, pravičnost