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CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
The journal Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea is receiving articles and reviews continuously for the 2025 edition. Published by the Study Group in Contemporary Brazilian Literature at the University of Brasilia, the journal is committed to fostering critical debate on contemporary literature produced in Brazil, in its different manifestations, from the most diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, with openness to dialogue with other literatures, especially from Latin America.
Open Theme
The journal has an open theme section that publishes articles on contemporary Brazilian literature with diverse approaches. The articles in this section are received on a continuous flow basis. There is also space dedicated to reviews of fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and literary theory works published in the last 24 months.
1. Dossier
Brazilian poetry: critical scenario, transits, silences
Organizers: Gabriel Arcanjo Santos de Albuquerque (UFAM) and Maria de Fátima Nascimento (UFPA)
Perhaps due to the lack of prestige proven by the narrative as a preferred literary expression for the book market, perhaps due to the rarefaction of the poetic experience as a bill or even the silence around a production that rarely circulates either in specialized circles or in public life, recent Brazilian poetry is a reason for reflection on the part of critics. Some products of this reflection point to the distancing of the modernist heritage, to the search for a confluence between lyric and prose, to the frivolity of the attachment to tradition as well as to the independence in the production of poetry made by individuals and groups who produce and publish in the circumstances that are possible to them (on social networks, through literary creation collectives, in peripheral communities) without greater adherence to publication through recognized publishers. In this dispersive set, a question remains in the air: what is there of originality and challenge in contemporary Brazilian poetry?
If, on the one hand, there is a crisis of poetry and the poetic due to the convergence with prose, as there is also a specific poetic expression whose adherence to tradition seems to occur frivolously, the production of poetry occurs simultaneously in different parts of Brazil without this passing through the sieve of specialized criticism. This plural, diverse and broad production does not always become visible, but it fulfils a humanizing and civilizing role to the extent that it gives voice to individuals in places where one would not suspect there is consistent literary production and, contrary to what is believed, this production exists through self-publishing movements, independent editorial promotion, of poetic discourse as performance and the attitude of a few publishers that position themselves as a medium for new authors. Hence, there is a need to map and evaluate this production that occurs in the absence of the centers of cultural production.
The geographical distinctions call for reflection because the silence around literary and poetic production without commercial appeal has very curious nuances since we are no longer dealing with literariness, but with different voices that emerge in different parts of Brazil. The possibilities of exploring a geography of poetry and poetics in Brazil go in several directions, being a product of urban experience, of its presence in public spaces (streets, theatres, cultural centers, community libraries) as a performative manifestation or, in addition to its performative realization, as a printed work, giving visibility to authors whose production is not in the critical gaze of the media and the forecast of gains by the publishing market.
Made these considerations, the dossier proposes to receive articles whose scope points to:
1) the reflection on the transit that poetry makes to prose, making use of the latter's discursive elements;
2) Advances and setbacks in the dialogue between recent Brazilian poetry and modern poetic traditions;
3) the experimental character of poetry in its confluence with performance (theatrical, street, community, etc.);
4) printed poetry based on editorial experiences (independent or not) to give visibility to new authors, expanding the geographical field of recent Brazilian poetic production;
5) the place of recent Brazilian poetic production as an expression of resistance and humanization.
References
SISCAR, Marcos. “Figuras de prosa: a ideia da ‘prosa’ como questão de poesia”. In: Susana SCRAMIM; Marcos SISCAR; Alberto PUCHEU. (Org.). O duplo estado da poesia: modernidade e contemporaneidade. 1ed. São Paulo: Iluminuras, 2015, v. 1, p. 29-40.
SIMON, Iumna Maria. “A retradicionalização frívola – o caso da poesia”. Cerrados - Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura- N. 39 - 2015 - Crítica Estética Marxista.
The deadline for submitting articles and reviews for the dossier is July 31, 2025.
2. Dossier
Contemporary literary biographies
Organizers: Antonio Marcos Pereira (UFBA - Brazil), Judith Podlubne (UNR - Argentina) and Patrício Fontana (UBA - Argentina)
Marked by its hybrid condition, built between the archive, the document, the chronology, and the narrative forms and fictional structures it adapts and appropriates, biography has established itself in the panorama of contemporary literary genres as a privileged space for observing the intertwining of discourses and knowledge, leading to new examinations of the links between memory, history and experience in the construction of literature. This dossier seeks to explore the multiple dimensions of literary biographies produced in 21st-century Latin America, emphasising the particularities of poetics which, by innovating and provoking the traditional form of the genre, represent problematisations of the epistemology underlying the transaction between the factual and the inventive in the project of narrating a life.
We call for articles and essays from Brazilian and foreign researchers who invest in the study of literary biographies that, taking place in the 21st century, bring out discussions linked to the following topics:
- Poetics of Contemporary Literary Biography
- Literary biography and the literary field
- Biography and literary criticism
- Literary profiles and biographies
- Biographies and biographical essays
- Biographies and biofictions
- Innovative forms in literary biography
The deadline for submitting articles and reviews for the dossier is July 31, 2025.
Publication Guidelines
Articles must be submitted in DOC or RTF format, using Times New Roman font, size 12, spacing 1.5. Bibliographic information should be included in footnotes in an abbreviated form (author's name, book title, and page number). The complete bibliography should be listed at the end of the text, following ABNT standards. It is necessary to include an abstract, three or four keywords, and some lines with the author's data, including a contact email and postal address for sending three copies of the journal if the text is published. Reviews should not exceed five pages, while articles have no page limit. The papers will be sent to reviewers, maintaining mutual anonymity.
Articles and reviews should be submitted EXCLUSIVELY through the journal's platform on SCIELO: https://www.scielo.br/j/elbc/.
For any questions, contact us via email: revistaestudos@gmail.com.
