Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
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description: Estudos de literatura brasileira contemporânea is a quarterly scientific journal of the Grupo de Estudos em Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (Contemporary Brazilian Literature Studies), from the Pós-graduação em Literatura (Graduated Course on Literature) of the Universidade de Brasília (University of Brasília). Since 1999, when it started to be issued, the journal is committed to raise a critical debate on the contemporary literature produced in Brazil, in its varied manifestations, departing from many theoretical and methodological approaches, with an open dialogue with other literatures and other kinds of artistic expression. Its content is intended, in particular, to researchers, professors and students interested in contemporary Brazilian literature.
publisher: Grupo de Estudos em Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
language: pt-BR
publication name: Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
issn: 1518-0158
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items: Vozes da morte na Flor de pedra, de João Carrascoza
items: The fragility of convictions: “Correr com rinocerontes” between freedom as harm and tradition as refuge
items: O acorde dissonante de Gonçalo M. Tavares: mitologia, absurdo e banalidade em O Diabo
items: Flávio dos Santos Gomes e Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: Enciclopédia negra para jovens leitores
items: Entre literaturas – os oríkì e as interpretações que nunca cessam
items: Entre subjetividade e (des) construção: da consciência da soberania em O grande relógio, a que hora o mundo recomeça, de Silviano Santiago
items: Procedures for a fictional ecology of transit
items: Effects of contemporaneity: the emergence of a literary paracampo
items: Escrevivential Journey
items: “Do voo célere de um pássaro branco”: Um estudo sobre a memória em Lavoura arcaica e Nur na escuridão
items: Mata Doce, by Luciany Aparecida
items: Autobiographies/Autozoographies: written cockroaches in Adília Lopes and Eliane Brum
items: THE NUANCES OF LAUGHTER IN “BATALHA DE BILHETES”
items: Progress as a form of destruction: Milton Hatoum's literary geography
items: The delirium of caged writing: an account of misogyny in colonial Brazil in Letter to the Mad Queen, by Maria Valéria Rezende
items: “Queer” literature in Portuguese: a comparative reading of Pardalita and Arlindo
items: O NOME PRÓPRIO DE PESSOA COMO HIPERCÓDIGO EM DO MODO CRUEL COMO SE EXTERMINAM BARATAS, DE PAULA GIANNINI: UM ESTUDO EXPLORATÓRIO
items: Eternos agoras e interioridades contemplativas na poesia de António Cícero
items: THE PRESENCE OF THE CANVAS-BODY, PERFORMANCE, AND GESTURE IN NÍVEA SABINO'S "INTERIORANA" WORK
items: La metáfora de la lengua herida-desgarrada en Torto arado (2018) de Itamar Viera Junior como herencia destitutiyente del discurso del poder colonial-patriarcal.
items: O esvaziamento da atividade narrante d’Os cem menores contos brasileiros do século (2004), antologia organizada por Marcelino Freire
items: Poesia visual e sintaxe da língua escrita
items: BETWEEN THE BOOK AND THE AUDIOBOOK: A COMPARATIVE READING OF POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS, BY MACHADO DE ASSIS
items: Lesbian virtual literature as cultural pedagogy: lesbian love as a love-war
items: Peripheral Poetics and soirées: Alternative Literary Circuits in Salvador.
items: Narrative as a subversion of the single story in Micheliny Verunschk's The Sound of the Jaguar's Roar
items: o livro Gelo mediante "O pé esquerdo" de Sérgio Nazar David
items: O perrengue trágico
items: Words in Motion
items: Football is not a boy's thing, but Michel Yakini-Iman's thing

Vozes da morte na Flor de pedra, de João Carrascoza
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description: Por intermédio de uma textura crítico-poética, o presente ensaio apresenta uma reflexão sobre a representação da morte no romance Flor de Pedra, de João Carrascoza. Sem perder um tom subjetivo e confessional, uma espécie de “Eu Crítico” navega de uma forma errática entre as nuances do romance e as particularidades da sua própria vida. Ao final de contas, o que está em jogo é um espelhamento entre o lido e o vivido. Dessa forma, a escrita ensaísta, aqui apresentada, caracteriza-se como um tour de force que desfaz as fronteiras entre a crítica literária e a escrita criativa.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
creator: Ricardo Barberena
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ricardo Barberena https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-11-14
publication date: 2025-11-14

The fragility of convictions: “Correr com rinocerontes” between freedom as harm and tradition as refuge
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description: This article offers a philosophical reading of “Correr com rinocerontes”, by Cristiano Baldi, through the lens of two British liberal traditions: John Stuart Mill’s pragmatic liberalism and Edmund Burke’s liberal conservatism. The analysis explores how the novel stages the exhaustion of institutional and moral mediations in contemporary Brazil, articulating a liberal sensibility capable of responding to suffering and subjective disintegration. Rather than applying external philosophical frameworks, the study uses these concepts as critical instruments to illuminate the novel’s ethical and aesthetic reach. By intertwining literary criticism, political philosophy, and novel theory, the article contributes to the understanding of the dilemmas faced by contemporary Brazilian literature in times of civilizational collapse. Ultimately, the essay proposes an interpretive model that situates Baldi’s work within a broader debate on the role of moral imagination in the face of the brutalization of everyday life.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
subject: Contemporary Brazilian literature
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subject: Cristiano Baldi
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subject: Liberalism
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subject: Conservatism
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creator: Marcos Antonio Gomes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marcos Antonio Gomes Pena Júnior https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-09-29
publication date: 2025-09-29

O acorde dissonante de Gonçalo M. Tavares: mitologia, absurdo e banalidade em O Diabo
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description: Esta resenha de O Diabo, de Gonçalo M. Tavares, inscreve-se numa tradição literária que mobiliza elementos da mitologia, do absurdo e da banalidade para tensionar os limites entre o sagrado e o profano, o cotidiano e o metafísico. A figura do Diabo, tradicionalmente associada ao mal absoluto ou à transgressão, é aqui reconfigurada em tom irônico e dissonante, aproximando-se do homem comum e revelando um mundo regido por contradições, falhas morais e lógica fragmentada. O autor constrói uma narrativa marcada por frases curtas, linguagem direta e um estilo seco, que acentua o efeito de estranhamento e evidencia a proximidade entre o monstruoso e o trivial. Essa estética remete ao absurdo kafkiano, ao mesmo tempo em que evoca o riso amargo de Beckett e a crítica existencial de Camus, criando uma atmosfera em que a mitologia perde seu peso transcendental e passa a habitar os corredores da banalidade humana. Em O Diabo, a alegoria se desfaz na literalidade e a metáfora se esvazia em ações automáticas e desconectadas. Tavares produz, assim, um acorde dissonante entre o grandioso e o medíocre, revelando uma mitologia contemporânea onde o mal não reside mais nos pactos diabólicos, mas nas pequenas repetições do cotidiano. O conto se transforma em um espelho grotesco da condição humana.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Gonçalo M. Tavares
  topic: keywords
subject: Mito
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subject: O Diabo
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creator: Rodrigo Felipe Veloso
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rodrigo Felipe Veloso https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-09-30
publication date: 2025-09-30

Flávio dos Santos Gomes e Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: Enciclopédia negra para jovens leitores
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subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Adaylson Vasconcelos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Adaylson Vasconcelos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-08-12
publication date: 2025-08-12

Entre literaturas – os oríkì e as interpretações que nunca cessam
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description: No entre espaço conceitual só é possível considerar o outro, observando as organizações conotativas que persistem contra as hegemonias opressivas. Isso porque essas configurações conotativas não buscam achar as leis ordenativas, nem mesmo os significados tidos como verdades eternas, mas os sentidos que são motivos de suas advinhas e segredos. Esboçar essas composições, notificando os tipos de pensamentos que essas perspectivas epistemológicas soam é um dos objetivos aqui. Essa investigação se desafia a observar o pensamento vinculado aos atos de viver pelo qual toda reflexão sobre o humano é engajada, é “teorizável”. É nesse duelo elegante pelo processo de composição de um dos elementos da cadeia significativa, que as compreensões de Roger Bastide e Juana Elbein dos Santos se distinguem. Dois interlocutores, de origens estrangeiras, mergulhados no pensamento sobre a influência de certo sistema simbólico, mais conhecido como candomblé, do qual, certas composições literárias narrativas e poéticas contribuem para o acervo brasileiro por meio de interpretação e ou reinterpretação daquele conjunto de atos. E isso se verifica também na definição do que sejam os oríkìs e os itãs. Bastide olha para o mito, Elbein considera o rito, no que a acompanharemos, olhando para a função que essas formas poéticas assumem em suas expressividades.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
creator: Waldelice Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Waldelice Souza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-09-11
publication date: 2025-09-11

Entre subjetividade e (des) construção: da consciência da soberania em O grande relógio, a que hora o mundo recomeça, de Silviano Santiago
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description: Esta resenha de O grande relógio, a que hora o mundo recomeça, de Silviano Santiago busca (re) pensar a literatura e a cultura brasileiras, bem como a imagem de Machado de Assis, no tempo presente, se manifesta e nos representa na tentativa de se discutir o Brasil atual. Este primeiro caderno (total de três a serem lançados) de um projeto mais amplo é uma incursão por tempos diversos históricos, pessoais e culturais, que se sobrepõem na narrativa ensaística como engrenagens de um grande relógio metafórico. O foco apontado por Santiago no livro de ensaios versa sobre as boas e más intenções civilizatórias do Ocidente, da Europa, que passou por um período longo de colonização do Novo Mundo. O método utilizado pelo crítico trata-se, de fato, de colocar o dedo nas feridas do Ocidente, uma vez que deseja desconstruir o eurocentrismo ainda dominante no pensamento dos latino-americanos. Para isso, Santiago intenta uma análise de uma “literatura nacional metropolitana”, de uma literatura francesa moderna, que se tem o exemplo à obra de Marcel Proust (Em busca do tempo perdido – “Um amor de Swann”), numa interpretação contrastiva, confrontativa com uma literatura nacional de colônia “recém-emancipada” das Américas e de descendência diaspórica africana, que se tem o exemplo à obra de Machado de Assis (Dom Casmurro e Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas).
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Rodrigo Felipe Veloso
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rodrigo Felipe Veloso https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-08-12
publication date: 2025-08-12

Procedures for a fictional ecology of transit
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description: I propose a point of contact between contemporary Brazilian fiction and the context of the experiential-ecological crisis that has intensified in the 21st century. This is achieved by identifying a creative praxis in which the decentring of the individual and the anthropocentric regime are essential to speculation on de-programmed forms of inhabitation. To this end, I defend presentification and transfiguration as core procedures, that can be observed in the works of João Gilberto Noll in the 1990s and Evando Nascimento in the 2010s. In both authors, the natural landscape can be interpreted as a metalinguistic miniature of literature as an environment of mobility of forms; at the same time, it announces the experiment of expansion spatial-temporal dimension of the subject – a variation on the idea of ​​conceiving life as a return to the flows of its formation (Ingold, 2015). Formal implications, such as ways of telling, and their direction towards the experience of reception, guide the unfolding of the analysis.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
subject: Ecology
  topic: keywords
subject: Presentification
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subject: Transfiguration
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subject: Brazilian contemporary narrative
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creator: Thiago H. Fernandes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Thiago H. Fernandes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-11-25
publication date: 2025-11-25

Effects of contemporaneity: the emergence of a literary paracampo
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description: The literary production of the Brazilian peripheries from the 2000s onwards challenges the structure of the hegemonic literary system. It is understood here as a cultural landmark that pluralizes contemporary Brazilian literary production, problematizing and challenging the hegemonic structures of the Brazilian literary field, of knowledge, and of power. This article considers the literary trajectories of Lima Barreto, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and João Antônio throughout the 20th century, and, in the 2000s, Paulo Lins's work Cidade de Deus, Ferréz's trajectory, and the publication of the three special editions of the magazine Caros Amigos/Literatura Marginal – 2001, 2002, and 2004, to demonstrate the emergence of another symbolic space of literary production: the paracampo. The proposition of this concept destabilizes the hegemonic literary field, interfering in the conditions and forms of cultural production from the Brazilian peripheries, thus justifying the elaboration of the concept to interpret the specificities of the literary objects addressed and how agents from the peripheries tension and interfere in the rules of the art of the literary field. The paracampo, thus, is an intercultural epistemic proposal that reflects the relationships established between culture-producing agents from the Brazilian peripheries and even beyond them.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
creator: André Natã Mello Botton
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 André Natã Mello Botton https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-11-20
publication date: 2025-11-20

Escrevivential Journey
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description: In this essay, I propose a critical reflection on contemporary Black writing as a practice of reexistence, from a spiral and counter-hegemonic perspective. Structured in three movements, it explores the nocturnal subject as a rupture from the Cartesian model; writing as skin-verb shaped by lived experience; and escrevivências as collective and ancestral expressions of Black subjectivity. Through authors such as Conceição Evaristo, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Sueli Carneiro, and Stuart Hall, the text highlights Black literature as epistemic insurgency, where body, memory, and word construct new ways of being and expressing the world.
subject: Thematic Section
  topic: section
subject: Escrevivência
  topic: keywords
subject: Black literature
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subject: Subjectivity
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subject: Ancestry
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subject: Resistance
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subject: Epistemology
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creator: LUCIANO NEIVA
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 LUCIANO NEIVA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-12-11
publication date: 2025-12-11

“Do voo célere de um pássaro branco”: Um estudo sobre a memória em Lavoura arcaica e Nur na escuridão
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description: Este estudo visa a estabelecer um paralelo entre as obras Nur na escuridão, de Salim Miguel (2004), e Lavoura arcaica, de Raduan Nassar (1982), mais especificamente naquilo que concerne ao tempo, a memória e ao passado. Minha hipótese é a de que existem, nos dois romances, diferentes tempos entremeados no fluxo de consciência dos narradores, e a linha analítica da investigação acompanha essa confusão que é intrínseca ao funcionamento pouco progressivo da memória. A análise demonstra como o tempo e a memória se mostram primordiais para que se dê efetivamente a construção da identidade dos personagens das duas narrativas, sendo que ambas tratam da vida de sujeitos originários de outros países. Isso ocorre principalmente através da compreensão dessas personagens acerca de seu passado, sendo ele temática perene tanto na vida dos narradores quanto, principalmente, na dos seus pais. Nur na escuridão (MIGUEL, 2004) e Lavoura arcaica (NASSAR, 1982) dão ao tempo e à memória o papel de protagonistas; e é esse protagonismo que figura nos principais achados do estudo que aqui eu proponho.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
subject: Literatura de imigrantes
  topic: keywords
subject: Identidade
  topic: keywords
subject: Memória
  topic: keywords
subject: Raduan Nassar
  topic: keywords
subject: Salim Miguel
  topic: keywords
creator: Davi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Davi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-09-29
publication date: 2025-09-29

Mata Doce, by Luciany Aparecida
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description: The romance Mata Doce, by Luciany Aparecida, seeks, from a story that articulates a plot woven by the memory of women, to discuss a line of feminine resistance. It is based on the story of Maria Teresa/Filinha Mata Boi that the Bahian author tells the saga of a family of women who resists colonial violence and patriarchy. The review seeks, therefore, to analyze the romance from two concepts of performance by Leda Maria Martins (2021) and the quilombo as a place of black cultural resistance, in the thoughts of Beatriz Nascimento (2021).
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: memory
  topic: keywords
subject: resistance
  topic: keywords
subject: novel
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subject: coloniality
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subject: literature written by women
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creator: Rafaella Cristina Alves Teotônio
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rafaella Cristina Alves Teotônio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10

Autobiographies/Autozoographies: written cockroaches in Adília Lopes and Eliane Brum
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description: By analyzing the poem “Autobiografia sumária” (1986), by Portuguese poet Adília Lopes, and “Autobiografia de uma barata”, included in Meus desacontecimentos. A história da minha vida com as palavras (2014), by Brazilian writer and journalist Eliane Brum, the article investigates the implications of the cockroach figure in both “autobiographical” texts, to show how the presence of the radical alterity of the insect challenges the classical distance between bios and zoé,following the ideas of “zoo-ontology”, by Adriana Cavarero, and “bio-egalitarianism”, by Rosi Braidotti. Starting from the theortical positions of Braidotti, Cavarero, and Julia Kristeva on the cultural meanings linked to insects, to the space of abjection, the feminine and the maternal, and investigating the metamorphosis of subjectivities ­– becoming-animal – operated by the two authors when disorganizing the form of the autobiography, the essay proposes to reinterpret these excerpts as modes of writing that open passages between forms of living – human and more-than-human – enabling a rapprochement between the two.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
subject: autobiography
  topic: keywords
subject: becoming-animal
  topic: keywords
subject: zoo-ontology
  topic: keywords
subject: bio-egalitarianism
  topic: keywords
creator: Marianna Scaramucci
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marianna Scaramucci https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-07-02
publication date: 2025-07-02

THE NUANCES OF LAUGHTER IN “BATALHA DE BILHETES”
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description: Considering the complexity of delimiting the borders among the concepts of laughter, humor and comic, this paper analyzes the short story “Batalha de bilhetes”, by Dalton Trevisan. Therefore, the text is divided into two moments: in the first, some theoretical reflections by Sigmund Freud (1927), Umberto Eco (1989), Henri Bergson (2001) among others are presented; in the second, the topic of old age is discussed from these perspectives. As results, it can be seen that Dalton Trevisan uses humorous and comical content in the image construction of scenes and the body in old age. The laughter, through the irony and the caricature, for example, is at the service of deconstructing stereotypes of social institutions such as marriage, as well as contributing to reflection on issues related to human miseries, making the comic come closer to the tragic.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
subject: Laughter; Humor; Comic; Dalton Trevisan.
  topic: keywords
creator: Jane Adriane Gandra
creator: Nismária Alves David
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jane Adriane Gandra, Nismária Alves David https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24

Progress as a form of destruction: Milton Hatoum's literary geography
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description: The aim of this article is to analyze the literary geography proposed by Milton Hatoum in four of his novels,Relato de um certo Oriente (1989), Dois Irmãos (2000), Cinzas do Norte (2005) and Órfãos do Eldorado (2008), all of which express a critical view of Brazilian modernization and affirm the gesture of narrating as a way of understanding the world. To do this, we will analyze their contradictory characters and complex narrators, observing how the disappearance of an old Manaus and characters who don't conform to capitalist rationality end up condemned and lost, being thrown into the madhouse, prison or poverty. We also observe how modernization, in the context of the military dictatorship, alters the descriptions of relationships and the geography of the cities described in the novels. Our conclusion is that Hatoum both points to a critique of the violent modernization promoted by the military in his novel and to a narrative power of literature that goes beyond historical conjunctures.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
subject: Modernization; Literary Geography; Milton Hatoum.
  topic: keywords
creator: Wibsson Lopes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Wibsson Lopes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-07-10
publication date: 2025-07-10

The delirium of caged writing: an account of misogyny in colonial Brazil in Letter to the Mad Queen, by Maria Valéria Rezende
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description: In Letter to the Mad Queen (2019), Rezende's writing articulates the interest in a unique type of narrator, characterized by theorist Wayne Booth (1980) as unreliable, alongside the disruption of historical discourse.This paper aims to analyze how this interlocution occurs in the reading of misogyny in the eighteenth-century Brazilian period. To this end, it relies on the support of theoretical studies focused on the relations between literature and history. The guiding question is how literary imagination interrogates the past about the subjectivities that have been silenced, subjugated and violated by the prevailing patriarchal order since the prehistory of humanity, whose cruelty is intensified in the experiences of women affected by colonialism.Thus, through a process of reading and analysis of bibliographic typology, adopting a comparative methodological perspective between the aforementioned novel and the work D. Maria I (2019), by historian Mary Del Priore, we reach a possible answer. Through the use of ambiguity, irony and paradox, Rezende leads us on the account of the creation of a letter with an unusual form and content, filled with legible erasures.The defendant and sender have little to expect from the noble recipient; however, the experiences of these two Marias have much to reveal to present-day readers about the history of women's exclusion from positions of power.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
subject: patriarchy; women in the Brazilian colonial period; gender violence in contemporary Brazilian literature.
  topic: keywords
creator: Luciana Delgado da Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luciana Delgado da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-08-12
publication date: 2025-08-12

“Queer” literature in Portuguese: a comparative reading of Pardalita and Arlindo
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description: This study aims to conduct a comparative reading of two novels, one Portuguese and one Brazilian, primarily intended for young adults, that address issues related to the discovery and affirmation of homosexual orientation. The selected volumes are Pardalita by Joana Estrela (1990) and Arlindo by Ilustralu, the pseudonym of Luiza de Souza (1992), published in their respective countries in 2021 and 2022. They share a multimodal dimension, particularly through the frequent presence of images as an integral part of the narratives, alongside the text. The books under analysis not only exemplify innovative literary trends through their themes—clearly disruptive and groundbreaking—but also through their formats, which merge different languages, styles, and even literary genres. Created by young illustrators and authors of the same generation, who have already been recognized with various awards, these books seem to illustrate the emerging thematic and formal trends in the publishing landscape of their respective countries, highlighting perspectives and realities that are often silenced and overlooked.
subject: Free Theme Section
  topic: section
subject: multimodality
  topic: keywords
subject: multimodal novel
  topic: keywords
subject: hybrid novel
  topic: keywords
subject: homosexuality
  topic: keywords
creator: DIANA NAVAS
creator: Ana Margarida Ramos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Diana Navas, Ana Margarida Ramos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-11-20
publication date: 2025-11-20

O NOME PRÓPRIO DE PESSOA COMO HIPERCÓDIGO EM DO MODO CRUEL COMO SE EXTERMINAM BARATAS, DE PAULA GIANNINI: UM ESTUDO EXPLORATÓRIO
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description: Este estudo propõe a análise do antropônimo ficcional (nome de personagens) como forma textual onomástica de hipercodificação, ou seja, um hipercódigo pela ótica de Umberto Eco. Para isso, há a descrição de como a motivação de antropônimos ficcionais pela perspectiva autoral (intentio auctoris) em relação com a sua estruturação textual (intentio operis) atuam enquanto antecipadores de conteúdos, fazendo com que o nome ficcional exerça a função de mediador interpretativo quanto à (re)criação de sentidos literários. A fim de que se perceba tal atribuição onomástica em funcionamento, será considerado como corpus de análise o conto da Literatura Contemporânea Brasileira Do modo cruel como se exterminam baratas, de Paula Giannini – texto temático acerca da violência simbólica contra a mulher publicado na Antologia Pedaços de Asas (Urutau, 2023) –. Como base teórico-metodológica, estabelecemos uma relação entre a Enciclopédia Semântica de Eco (1984) e as funções associativas dos nomes próprios de pessoa, ora pela base das pesquisas onomásticas tchecas (Dvořáková, 2018), ora pela revisão de literatura brasileira mais recente (Camargo, 2018ab, Camargo, 2020, Camargo, 2022, Seide, 2021). A partir da análise empreitada e de diálogos com a autora contemporânea Paula Giannini, descrevemos como a função onomástica predominante proposta para a escolha do nome próprio da personagem principal Menina propõe a despersonalização da entidade ficcional e antecipa seu processo de subjetivação enquanto encontro de si: Maria. Este estudo exploratório confirma, ainda, a ideia do semioticista Umberto Eco acerca do conceito de Leitor-Modelo, isto porque, dentre os diversos procedimentos que envolvem o trabalho da escrita literária, a elaboração de um arranjo antroponímico baseada em percursos inferenciais por parte de uma entidade leitora suposta cuja recepção textual empírica está necessariamente guiada pelo ancoramento das marcas textuais, às quais se atrela o continuum enciclopédico.
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creator: AMANDA KRISTENSEN DE CAMARGO
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 AMANDA KRISTENSEN DE CAMARGO https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-11-24
publication date: 2025-11-24

Eternos agoras e interioridades contemplativas na poesia de António Cícero
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description: A poesia de António Cícero, embora com origens musicais nas letras de canções para artistas como Caetano Veloso ou Adriana Calcanhoto, é uma das mais originais e importantes da atual poesia contemporânea brasileira. Este artigo visa explorar, através da leitura atenta de vários dos poemas do autor, a forma como ele articula a herança clássica da sua formação filosófica com os pressupostos do pós-modernismo, pondo em evidência a posição única da sua poesia em relação ao mundo moderno, o qual critica, mas para o qual apresenta uma visão humanista baseada na tradição clássica greco-romana de que é herdeiro. Concatenação de eternos agoras e de interioridades contemplativas, a poesia de António Cícero tornam-no num dos poetas mais originais e urgentes da contemporaneidade brasileira.
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subject: António Cícero, poesia contemporânea, cultura clássica, pós-modernismo
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creator: Ricardo Rato Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ricardo Rato Rodrigues https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-09-12
publication date: 2025-09-12

THE PRESENCE OF THE CANVAS-BODY, PERFORMANCE, AND GESTURE IN NÍVEA SABINO'S "INTERIORANA" WORK
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description: This article aims to undertake a critical reading of the work Interiorana by Nívea Sabino (2018), based on the concept of corpo-tela created by Leda Maria Martins (2021). In this sense, it's perceived that the images contained in the work resonate as deixis in the poems, recreating movements inherent to a corporeality that constitutes the very essence of the work itself. The article also aligns with the reflections of Richard Schechner (2003), Paul Zumthor (2007), Leda Maria Martins (2021) on performance, and with Jean Galard's (2008) perspective on gesture. In conclusion, it's established that the linguistic situations, their creations, and their visual records act as gateways to screens and scriptings of a syntax of adornments.
subject: Free Theme Section
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subject: Canvas-body
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subject: Performance
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subject: Body-image
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subject: Gesture
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creator: Mikaela Gabriele Elias da Costa
creator: Rodrigo Côrrea Martins Machado
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mikaela Gabriele Elias da Costa, Rodrigo Corrêa Martins Machado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24

La metáfora de la lengua herida-desgarrada en Torto arado (2018) de Itamar Viera Junior como herencia destitutiyente del discurso del poder colonial-patriarcal.
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description: El presente artículo se propone abordar la novela Torto Arado (2018) de Itamar Viera Junior desde la metáfora de la lengua herida-desgarrada, entendiendo dicha metáfora como la connotación de la violencia contenida en discursividad del poder colonial-patriarcal. Conforme a ello, este trabajo se ha estructurado en dos partes, la primera, referida a la lengua herida, en la cual se develan las estructuras del discurso patriarcal-colonial, obedientes a las clausuras onto-teleológicas. En tanto en la segunda, la lengua desgarrada se entiende como destitución violenta del discurso hegemónico. Conforme a ello, las conclusiones de este trabajo exponen la forma en que el texto de Viera Junior deja inconclusa la acción destituyente, proyectando un devenir predatorio de voluntades enfrentadas.
subject: Free Theme Section
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subject: Metáfora- lengua herida- lengua desgarrada-discurso- violencia-narrativa afrobrasileña.
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rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-07-18
publication date: 2025-07-18

O esvaziamento da atividade narrante d’Os cem menores contos brasileiros do século (2004), antologia organizada por Marcelino Freire
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description: O presente artigo propõe-se a discutir razões, implicações e modos como Os Cem menores contos brasileiros do século (2004) destoam, em razão do esgotamento narrante exposto em sua escritura, de textos ligados a uma estrutura narrativa mais ou menos estável, que é o conto nas suas épocas clássica e moderna. O estudo, portanto, perpassa três partes fundamentais: o debate sobre a possibilidade de escrita de um miniconto, subgênero do conto; o momento em que se objetiva destacar, na teoria e pelas exemplificações, a distância entre o miniconto e as microformas da antologia, que acabam por atender a uma modalidade genérica específica; e a seção na qual as microformas, ou micro-escritas, são contrastadas com o tipo que tem recebido, em pesquisas recentes, o nome de microficção. Resulta desse percurso a compreensão de que as cem micro-escritas vão além da dinâmica anti-conto das microficções, uma vez que, no lugar de corromperem a sua narratividade por abrigar outros estruturantes genéricos, escolhem exauri-la, com o apoio da subtração da escrita, por estarem ancoradas pela expectativa, às vezes enganosa, de um leitor-escritor, apto para narrativizar o que no máximo foi insinuação de um relato, ou um discurso livre provido de mistério semântico.
subject: Free Theme Section
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creator: Franksnilson Ramos Santana
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Franksnilson Ramos Santana https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-07-17
publication date: 2025-07-17

Poesia visual e sintaxe da língua escrita
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description: Nos dias atuais, em que os procedimentos visuais de espacialização e figurativização em poesia deixaram de ser novidade e já se encontram disseminados em grande parte da produção contemporânea, surge a necessidade premente de se estabelecer metodologias de análise sólidas e uma linguagem metalinguística apropriada para sua abordagem. Quando esses procedimentos colocam em questão a leitura por meio dos modos de ocupação da página, é raro encontrar análises que não invoquem a afirmativa central: “o poema rompe com a linearidade do signo linguístico”. No entanto, mais ainda raro é encontrar aqueles que explicam como se dá essa ruptura. Este artigo investiga a estrutura dessas obras por meio do entendimento da “nova sintaxe”, ou “sintaxe espacial”. Nossa abordagem se concentra na sintaxe da língua escrita, tratada como um sistema autônomo, e o uso poético que dela pode ser feito. Nesse contexto, introduzimos o conceito de “metataxe da língua escrita”, delineando operações retóricas que determinam a relação entre os elementos na página através da manipulação de categorias linguísticas e semióticas pertencentes à língua escrita, como direcionamento, alinhamento, uso de sinais de pontuação, variações de caixa alta e baixa, entre outros aspectos.
subject: Free Theme Section
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subject: Poesia
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subject: Escrita
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subject: Grafemática
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subject: Sintaxe
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subject: Visualidade
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creator: Juliana Di Fiori Pondian
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Juliana Di Fiori Pondian https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-08-12
publication date: 2025-08-12

BETWEEN THE BOOK AND THE AUDIOBOOK: A COMPARATIVE READING OF POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRÁS CUBAS, BY MACHADO DE ASSIS
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description: Based on the concepts from Intermediality Studies, our study proposes a comparative reading of two different media types, the book and the audiobook, using the novel Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas) by Machado de Assis as an example. For this proposition, we analyze the distinct cognitive and perceptive features and traits of the printed book and the audiobook, as proposed by authors like Lars Elleström (2021) and Jørgen Bruhn & Beate Schirrmacher (2022). We show how the intermedial similarities between the book and the audiobook allow the mediation of the same cognitive value, while we highlight the implications of their differences for the reception in the learning of literature. By adapting Celso Vasconcelos' (1992) dialectical methodology, we put into perspective the construction of knowledge by literature and the knowledge of literature, based on Rildo Cosson (2006), where the former deals with the mediation of the media product, analyzing the pre-semiotic modalities of media, and the latter deals with representation, analyzing the semiotic modality. Our goal is to show that the comparative reading of media promotes media literacy, enabling the development of critical reading and production skills, by understanding of how literature constructs meaning in different media types.
subject: Thematic Section
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subject: Book
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subject: Audiobook
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subject: Intermedial Studies
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subject: Literature education
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creator: Jaimeson Machado Garcia
creator: Ana Cláudia Munari Domingos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jaimeson Machado Garcia, Ana Cláudia Munari Domingos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10

Lesbian virtual literature as cultural pedagogy: lesbian love as a love-war
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description: Literary texts published on digital platforms have been reaching a large number of people. This paper proposes to study literary texts that deal with lesbian love, understanding them as cultural pedagogies. The analysis of the texts sought to understand how their speeches encompass the notion of lesbian love as a love-war, that is, a love that involves the conquest and possession of the other, while protecting yourself. To this end, we use a Foucault’s discussion of discourse, and a discussion of love linked to gender and sexuality studies.
subject: Thematic Section
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subject: Virtual literature
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subject: Cultural Pedagogies
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subject: Lesbian love
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creator: Ana Gabriela da Silva Vieira
creator: Marcio Rodrigo Vale Caetano
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Gabriela da Silva Vieira, Marcio Caetano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10

Peripheral Poetics and soirées: Alternative Literary Circuits in Salvador.
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description: The objective of this article is to analyze how contemporary Brazilian literature has been impacted by the peripheral poetics that emerge through saraus. The peripheral saraus of Salvador have brought to the center of the literary scene spaces and subjects that were previously marginalized and not seen as protagonists in literature. From this movement, questions about the status of the literary have begun to be raised by writers and critics. How has this insertion transformed contemporary literature in the 21st century? In recent years, the city has experienced an unprecedented literary creative flow, driven by the dissemination of saraus in the peripheries. These cultural initiatives, born from the collective mobilization of peripheral subjects, have reconfigured contemporary Soteropolitan literature since the 2000s. Marginalized spaces and voices gain prominence, contributing to a more plural, dynamic, and inclusive Brazilian literature. Saraus, and later slams, bring forth new forms of poetic creation and appreciation, where body, performance, and the audience become essential elements. The presence of the audience in this context is not merely ancillary; it serves as a thermometer that directly influences the poet's creation, transforming the relationship between author and work. For the preparation of this article, a qualitative approach was chosen, allowing for an in-depth examination of the practice of oral poetry and its relevance in the context of contemporary peripheral poetry. Additionally, the research will be supported by a literature review of authors such as Garramuño (2014), Tennina (2017), and Paz (2022), and complemented by ethnographic research. I adopt an ethnographic perspective.
subject: Thematic Section
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subject: Saraus; Literature; Poetry; Periphery
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creator: Paulo Sérgio Silva Paz
creator: Ari Lima
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Paulo Sérgio Silva Paz, Dr. Arivaldo de Lima Alves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10

Narrative as a subversion of the single story in Micheliny Verunschk's The Sound of the Jaguar's Roar
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description: This article presents a critical reading of Micheliny Verunschk's novel The Sound of the Jaguar's Roar (2022), identifying the record of violence perpetrated by European colonization against the subalternized Other through the writing of their history. With the interweaving of fiction and fragments of reality represented by historical records, Verunschk's narrative escapes the limits of autonomy to recount the official trajectory that stretches from the colonization of Brazil to the present day. The research argues that the author uses a resource to supplant two narrative levels. The first level relates to the main characters in the story, the indigenous girl Iñe-e and Josefa, an indigenous descent. The second level is the narration of the story of these characters, which, having been written by the German scientific explorers Von Spix and Von Martius from a colonial perspective is subverted by the narrator who lends his voice and language to a colonized other, breaking with the single story that is commonly perpetuated. The theoretical basis is provided by, among others, Ludmer (2013), Federici (2017, 2019) Adichie (2009), Lugones (2023), Mundukuru (2017), Pedrosa et al (2013).
subject: Thematic Section
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subject: Micheliny Verunschk
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subject: Contemporary narratives
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subject: Colonial violence
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creator: Mariana Marise Fernandes Leite
creator: Maria Mirtis Caser
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mariana Marise F. Leite, Maria Mirtis Caser https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10

o livro Gelo mediante "O pé esquerdo" de Sérgio Nazar David
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description: Published in 2023, the book Gelo collects 42 compositions, among which is the poem “O pé esquerdo”, that measures well the authorship of Sérgio Nazar David. The current Reading shall be supported by the essayistic work of Paulo Henriques Britto, outlined in three texts, namely, “O conceito de contraponto métrico em versificação” (2009), “Para uma tipologia do verso livre em português e inglês” (2011) e “O natural e o artificial: algumas reflexões sobre o verso livre” (2014). The hypothesis is to develop a certain reflection on free verse according to the conceptual repertoire accumulated, which should serve as na instrument for the analylis of that poem. So it is hoped not only to illustrate some understanding of the authorial work, but also, through appreciation, to sketch an acceptable designation of contemporary poetry.
subject: Free Theme Section
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subject: Contemporary Poetry
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subject: Sérgio Nazar David
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subject: Paulo Henriques Britto
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creator: EVERTON CORREIA
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 EVERTON CORREIA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10

O perrengue trágico
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description: Abstract As we accelerate towards a series of uncertain and potentially devastating future horizons, aggravated by the current crisis of democracy, this article explores the hypothesis that a return to Greek tragedy can both point to other readings of chaos, beyond just succumbing to it, and feed the imagination about how we represent democracy today. This reflection is part of a broader research on the ways in which tragedy can be a theoretical operator for a critical approach to the works in question, remembering that both democracy and tragedy emerged at the same time and place. Thus, this article proposes a dialog with the novel Via Ápia (2022) by Geovani Martins and with some works and strategies by Rio de Janeiro based artist Maxwell Alexandre, author of the diptych Trem (Alexandre, 2018) that illustrates the book's cover, based on the notion of disputatiousness worked on by Ghanaian professor and literary critic Ato Quayson in Tragedy and Postcolonial literature (2021). The proximity of the words perrengue and tragedy in Martins' novel in turn encourages speculation about the tragic perrengue as a possible variation of disputatiousness in Martins' book, which would be also echoed in Alexandre's work. Keywords: Geovani Martins, Maxwell Alexandre, tragedy, postcolonial, democracy crisis
subject: Thematic Section
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subject: Geovani Martins
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subject: Maxwell Alexandre
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subject: tragédia
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subject: teoria pós-colonial
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subject: Crise da democracia
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creator: Ana Cristina Toledo Soares
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Cristina Toledo Soares https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10

Words in Motion
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description: This review of Poetry and Gesture: On Contemporary Critical-Philosophical Aesthetics aims to clarify the context of the volume’s publication, particularly in relation to the contemporary emergence of discussions about the body and its dematerialization. It further examines how the editors, Paula Glenadel and Franklin Alves Dassie, engage with the concept of gesture as articulated by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Moreover, the review explores how theory and art might address this crisis of experience without perpetuating dichotomies that reify or oversimplify the debate surrounding it.
subject: Reviews
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subject: Contemporary poetry
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subject: Gesture
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subject: Body
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subject: Giorgio Agamben
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creator: Rafael Zacca Fernandes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rafael Zacca Fernandes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-07-17
publication date: 2025-07-17

Football is not a boy's thing, but Michel Yakini-Iman's thing
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description: The text presents a critical review of the latest literary work by São Paulo author Michel Yakini-Iman, through elements that remain in his career as an author and link the text with other previous productions, whether or not they focus on the football world.
subject: Reviews
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creator: Irene López Batalla
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Irene López Batalla https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt
date: 2025-06-10
publication date: 2025-06-10