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Critics of Al Berto’s work have highlighted his contribution to the emergence of an urban poetry with a queer consciousness in contemporary Portuguese literature. In dialogue and departing from this critical traditions, this article explores the environmental and ecological dimensions of Al Berto’s production. Focusing on what I will define as Al Berto’s petroqueer fictions and the poet's writings on the environmental violence and social transformations brought about by the construction of the Sines industrial complex, this article proposes an approximation between Al Berto’s poetry and Timothy Morton's notion of dark ecology. When read in the context of the Anthropocene as a threshold concept, Al Berto’s poetry suggests a logic of coexistence between the human and the non-human that defines its pioneering place in Portuguese environmentalist literature.
Author(s): Beleza F
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Anthropocenica
Year: 2022
Volume: 3
Pages: 135-155
Print publication date: 19/10/2022
Online publication date: 19/10/2022
Acceptance date: 28/09/2022
Date deposited: 24/10/2022
ISSN (print): 2184-8297
ISSN (electronic): 2184-8289
Publisher: University of Minho (Portugal)
URL: https://doi.org/10.21814/anthropocenica.4007
DOI: 10.21814/anthropocenica.4007
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