ARCHIVING THE MEMORY. HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION IN DOCUMENTARY POETRY

The article deals with identifying the relationship between documentary poetry (docupoetry) and historical representation. Historical representation is giving the past a presence in nowadays. According to P. Ricoeur, it is the final phase of historiographical operation, which consists in selecting documents, testimonies and facts, structuring them and building them into a historical narrative. Since documentary poetry attracts material outside of itself – a document in the broad sense of the word – it has mechanisms similar to those of historiographical operation, and thus the potential for historical representation.