Brasil/Brazil

JÚLIA LOPES DE ALMEIDA THE FAMILY MEDEIROS

Michael J. Tufft — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

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Michael J. Tufft

ADRIANA LISBOA: LITERATURA, LUTO E HUMANIDADE

Jordan B. Jones — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

In the fall of 2019, I taught a course on Brazilian culture and social justice, which I developed with extensive mentoring from Leila Lehnen. During the course my students and I discussed Adriana Lisboa’s short story “Glória” (2016), and I reached out to her beforehand to invite her to join our discussion via Skype, which she graciously agreed to. She also allowed me to interview her via Skype on October 25, 2019, as part of a research project investigating human rights and literature in Brazil. After a long delay caused by the pandemic and by changes in professional and personal circumstances, I reconnected with Lisboa and asked if we could revisit the interview and explore a few additional questions, which we did in early 2025. I’m grateful to Lisboa for sharing her insights with me, to the faculty and staff of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown for supporting my research during this time, and to the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University for granting funding in 2022 that allowed me to hire several research assistants (Carrie Janotti, Xana Furtado, Ashton Tolento, and Cayden Bro) to help transcribe and analyze this and other interviews.

WRITING, LUGAR DE FALA, AND IMAGINATIVE LISTENING IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Jordan B. Jones , Ashton V. Tolento , Cayden C. Bro — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Abstract: In discussions of literature, the term lugar de fala is understood and invoked in different ways, often during debates about what kinds of characters and stories a given author can reasonably and ethically write, given their own identity and life experience. In this article, we explore lugar de fala by analyzing short texts from four Brazilian authors: Geovani Martins’s “Espiral” (2018), a series of poems from Cristiane Sobral’s collection Só por hoje vou deixar meu cabelo em paz (2014), Adriana Lisboa’s short story “Glória” (2016), and Luiz Ruffato’s “Comer sushi em Beirute” (2014). Though often used in a negative sense to attempt to limit what authors and figures can or should say, we explore lugar de fala in an expansive sense and argue that, perhaps counterintuitively, the four authors in question view writing as an important form of imaginative listening.

Keywords: Lugar de fala; Contemporary Brazilian literature; Geovani Martins; Cristiane Sobral; Adriana Lisboa; Luiz Ruffato

FORMAÇÃO DA LITERATURA BRASILEIRA E A BASE NACIONAL COMUM CURRICULAR: INDÍCIOS DE UMA ASSIMILAÇÃO PROBLEMÁTICA

Luís Fernando Portela — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the directives of the Curricular Common National Base (BNCC) for literature in high school and their convergences with the concept of formation proposed by Antonio Candido in Formação da literatura brasileira: momentos decisivos (Formation of Brazilian literature: decisive moments). This relation is established with the support of the critical reading of this concept proposed by Luís Augusto Fischer, who points out both the current “strength” of Candido's formative thinking and its “blind points”. In addition, considerations are made about the place of literature in the BNCC and its approach, with the assistance of Gabriela Luft's research on previous curriculum documents and the Enem tests. Finally, as a brief counterpoint, a different approach to understanding Brazilian literature will be discussed, based on Vianna Moog's conception. This aims to shed light on other possible ways of teaching literature without disregarding the structuring thought of Candido`s formation.

Keywords: Literature; Education; Formação da Literatura Brasileira; Antonio Candido; Curricular Common National Base (BNCC).

“QUE BESTA TU ÉS DE ASAS”: UMA ANÁLISE TEXTO-VISUAL DA MULHER E DA TERRA EM DESMUNDO E AMRIK DE ANA MIRANDA

Inês de Almeida Forjaz de Lacerda — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Abstract: Ana Miranda, in her novels Desmundo (1996) and Amrik (1997), presents visions of hybridism and ecology, exploring the crossover between human and animal, reality and the imaginary. This study investigates the representation of women in Brazil as described by the author, focusing on the protagonists Oribela and Amina, in relation to the earth. I analyze the illustrations that open each chapter of the works, identifying symbols that contribute to feminine themes such as questioning and corporeality. Based on Zoë Sadokierski's (2010) notion of “hybrid textualities” and Silviano Santiago's (1971) concept of the “in-between,” we examine the interaction between text and image, highlighting multimodality as a constitutive element of the works. The illustrations, in dialogue with the characters, represent the tensions of the female experience and serve as an interstitial space to explore issues of identity, culture, religion, sexuality, and gender in the Brazilian environment. Each narrative challenges totalizing thoughts, revealing silenced voices and introducing a dialogical alterity that questions traditional representations of the female image and its connection to ecology. Thus, Ana Miranda creates a plural and resistant Brazilian space to simplistic interpretations, where the textual-visual presence is collaborative and diversified.

Keywords: Gender Studies; Illustration; Visual Studies; Colonialism; Ecocriticism; Immigration

INFÂNCIA DE GRACILIANO RAMOS: A estética da seca no romance autobiográfico

José Antonio Klaes Roig — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Abstract: This essay analyzes the work Infância, by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, an autobiography that narrates the author's childhood, marked by traumatic experiences and a troubled relationship with his parents. The analysis highlights the modular structure of the work, similar to the novel Vidas Secas, and the aesthetics of drought, which permeates the narrative. The essay also explores the relationship between autobiography and fiction, and how Ramos' work subverts the archetypes of home and family. In addition, the text discusses the recurrence of terms that refer to prison, reflecting the author's experience with family and political oppression. The analysis concludes that Ramos' writing is an antithesis of the water that floods, being a dry writing that allows the reader to deeply immerse himself in the autobiographical environment.

Keywords: Infância; Autobiography; Novel; Aesthetics; Drought.

OS ESPAÇOS EM K. RELATO DE UMA BUSCA A PARTIR DE OSMAN LINS

Flávia Santos da Silva — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Abstract: This paper examines the construction of fictional space in K.: Relato de uma busca by Bernardo Kucinski, through the theoretical lens of Osman Lins in O Espaço Romancesco (1976). The analysis focuses on how spaces interact with the protagonist’s emotions, memories, and personal transformations, serving as meaningful narrative elements. Through dissimulated, reflexive, and direct forms of setting, the places K. visits during his search for his missing daughter become symbolic expressions of his inner life, revealing a spatial experience that is deeply subjective.

Keywords: Fictional spatiality; Setting; Osman Lins; Bernardo Kucinski; K.

LITERATURA PARA A INFÂNCIA E LUGAR DE FALA: DE QUEM É A VOZ?

Regina Zilberman — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Abstract: Focusing on Ziraldo's children's book, The Brown Boy, with an aside consideration of Jefferson Tenório’s The Dark Side of the Skin, this essay examines how the difference in color is viewed by the children's characters and the narrator-author, in contrast to the attempts to ban the work from readings adopted in schools, driven by adults' fear of its harmful influence.

Keywords: The Brown Boy; The Other Side of the Skin; Censorship; Racial Prejudice.

‘DE TÃO LONGE, NÃO SE PODE FAZER IDEIA PERFEITA’: TRANSLATING JÚLIA LOPES DE ALMEIDA’S A FAMÍLIA MEDEIROS

Michael J. Tufft — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

OS ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS E SUAS CIRCUNSCRIÇÕES DISCIPLINARES

Roberto Acízelo de Souza — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Abstract: In their two thousand and five hundred years history, literary studies, despite the multiplicity of orientations into which they branch out, basically present two patterns regarding their disciplinary status: they tend to define themselves as a specific discipline, or as a convergence of disciplines.

Keywords: Literary studies; Disciplinary status.

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