Haicai Maranhense: o discurso poético de Silvana Meneses

Abstract

Haiku, a literary genre of Japanese origin, is characterized by its formal conciseness and its connection to aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual practices that articulate nature, experience, and language. Throughout its circulation, this genre has transcended its original context and has been appropriated across different sociocultural settings, assuming new discursive configurations. In Brazil, this process has enabled the emergence of poetic productions that reinterpret haiku through local elements, as observed in the work of the Maranhão-born writer Silvana Meneses. In this context, this study aims to analyze the construction of the author’s poetic discourse in the book Coletânea haicais (2022), highlighting how Japanese haiku is reconfigured in her literary production. This qualitative research adopts a documentary and bibliographic approach, drawing on genre studies and Critical Discourse Analysis in order to examine processes of intertextuality and interdiscursivity in the poems. The findings indicate that Silvana Meneses’ writing not only incorporates formal aspects of haiku but also discursively reworks them by integrating elements of Maranhão’s culture, Northeastern orality, and the author’s social experience. This demonstrates the dynamic nature of literary genres and their continuous re-signification across different historical and cultural contexts