Montage, spridning, paratax : Poesins politik hos Jörgen Gassilewski och Lars Raattamaa

Sammanfattning: This thesis examines the politics of poetry in works by the contemporary Swedish poets Jörgen Gassilewski and Lars Raattamaa. This is accomplished within a theoretical framework based on the aesthetic philosophy of Jacques Rancière and his understanding of politics, aesthetics, and artistic forms and practices. The thesis aims to elucidate the politics of poetry in Gassilewski and Raattamaa beyond the political categories of engagement and activism, and argues that poetry is political in and of itself, as a way of reconfiguring common forms of sense experience. Proceeding from the philosophy of Rancière and his understanding of montage and of historical discourse the thesis shows how the kaleidoscopic poetry of Gassilewski in skapelsens sedelärande samtal (2002) and Raattamaa’s poetry structured around names from the history of communism in Kommunismen (2014) propose political possibilities by intervening in the configurations of the forms of the sensible. The thesis also shows how a poetics of sprawl is explicitly elaborated on the basis of the concept of urban sprawl in the writings of Raattamaa which can be encountered in different ways in the work of both poets more broadly.