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JUANA DE IBARBOUROU Y SU RELACIÓN CON LA INFANCIA: CUANDO LA BIBLIOTECA IMAGINARIA HABLA MÁS QUE EL PROPIO LIBRO

2025-06-11T22:37:41+00:00

Juana de Ibarbourou (1892-1979) foi uma grande poetisa e escritora uruguaia que dedicou sua vida à literatura. Desde cedo, tinha na palavra imaginária como uma insígnia, um símbolo de vida plena de imagens da natureza e de recordações da infância mais natural e feliz que houve entre as escritoras latino-americanas de fins do século XIX e início do século XX. Como não deixar de sê-lo havendo escrito suas memórias infantis em Chico Carlo (1944)? Como não deixar de ler o frescor de El cántaro fresco (1920), sorte de prosa natural e crioula publicada um ano depois de Las lenguas de diamante (1919)? Neste breve ensaio, objetiva-se mostrar o ato de escrever de Ibarbourou a partir de sua relação com a infância presente em seus livros infantis: como ela escrevia a partir da ideia de que toda biblioteca – sobretudo a imaginária – é o motor da criação literária? Em que línguas ela lia e com quais artistas da palavra esteve conectada durante sua vida literária?

LIFE IN THE “SENZALA” OF THE WEST IN QUARTO DE DESPEJO: DIARY OF A FAVELA RESIDENT BY CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS

2024-11-26T02:50:24+00:00

This article proposes to analyze European and North American capitalist modernities as two distinct metaphysical systems designed around unequal Exchange values, taking into account the relationship between capital and work. It assumes that the first is constituted as structurally racist and the second as an object of racism and also as a different way of living modernity, based on use values. It adopts as an aesthetic reference the novel Quarto de Despejo: diario de uma favelada (1960), by the writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, a narrative of resistance against State racism, at the crossroads of the two modernities, the Eurocentric and the US, considering the category of biopower, divided into its immunitas side, the fetishism of merchandise; and communitas, represented by the singular and non-metaphysical aesthetic labor of the fictional production of the author of Pedaços de fome (1963).

O TEMA DO PODER EM DUAS NARRATIVAS INFANTO-JUVENIS LUSÓFONAS

2025-06-11T22:20:40+00:00

After all, what is power? Here, we dedicate ourselves to presenting the dialectical of power, a striking characteristic of the works O Reizinho Mandão, by Ruth Rocha (1978), and Kibala, o Rei Leão, by Gabriela Antunes (1983), in a comparative process that aims to demonstrate how real and fictional power mirror each other in order to reveal their effects on the Other who lives under them and depends on them, be it the citizen or the reader. Maria José de Rezende (2013), Márcia Maro da Silva (2007) and Terezinha Taborda Moreira (1999) are some of the authors who base this research and make the analysis possible in this space of interpretation configured between the poetically expressed power and the politically exercised power in specific historical moments of Brazil and Angola, privileging the perception of how acts of command do not occur without great consequences, especially when exercised without due consideration of reality and moral sense, essential elements in the field of sociability of subjectivities.

TENDÊNCIAS E DESAFIOS: UMA EXPLORAÇÃO DA IMAGOLOGIA NA LITERATURA COMPARADA

2025-06-10T22:17:03+00:00

O presente capítulo pretende oferecer uma análise sobre o desenvolvimento e as potencialidades da Imagologia na Literatura Comparada. Explorando-se as nuances da Imagologia, examina-se como as representações simbólicas e estereótipos culturais são empregados no texto literários para transmitir significados sutis e complexos. Além disso, o trabalho destaca os desafios inerentes à interpretação e análise dessas imagens, considerando o contexto cultural, histórico e social. A pesquisa não apenas identifica padrões recorrentes, mas também questiona as limitações e implicações éticas associadas à construção de imagens na literatura comparada. Este estudo pretende contribuir para o entendimento da interseção entre literatura e imagem, oferecendo uma visão crítica da Imagologia e possibilidades de mais estudos no Brasil a partir dessa teoria.

EDUCAÇÃO LITERÁRIA NA FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES: UM CAMINHO POSSÍVEL PARA COMBATER A CENSURA DE LIVROS LITERÁRIOS

2025-05-22T11:37:41+00:00

The repeated current situations of censorship of literary books motivated the writing of this article whose objective is to defend solid teacher training as a tool to combat censorship of literary books in Brazil. To this end, a brief retrospective of the periods in which there was censorship of books in Brazil is carried out and then the importance of the literary text for the formation of the subject as well as its functions and characteristics are presented. The ideas defended in this article are mainly based on studies by Candido (2011) and Andrueto (2012). As a conclusion, it is possible to point out the persecution suffered by books, especially literary ones, during authoritarian governments and the need for solid initial and continued training that allows teachers with degrees in Literature and Pedagogy to know what a literary text is, its functions and characteristics as this way they will have sufficient arguments to defend the literary choices made and also to plan and develop classes that promote literary education for their students.

On the aesthetic dimension of Memórias de Madame Satã

2025-06-11T22:18:39+00:00

The aim of this article is to demonstrate how fundamental is the aesthetic dimension for the understanding of Memórias de Madame Satã (1972). Transcribed by Sylvan Paezzo from the narration provided by João Francisco dos Santos, the work can be framed within the tradition of testimonial narratives in Latin America. Focusing on the first part of the book and revisiting the formulations of Coccia (2010), Burke (1969), and Chklovski (1973) (among others), this study aims to identify the formal procedures used in composing the narrative. At the endo f the article, using the formulations of Castagnino (1968), some brief considerations regarding the stylistics of the work are also presented.

TIETÊ: MÁRIO NAVEGA PELA PAULICEIA

2025-05-22T11:33:13+00:00

Bearing in mind the close bond that unites the poet Mário de Andrade and the city of São Paulo, this work proposes a trip along the Tietê river, the river that crosses this city, as well as the life of Mário de Andrade, our main navigator. The poet creates poetically with Rio, composing in Pauliceia Desvairada (1922) a nascent hymn in the poem Tietê. The same river flows, at the end of his life, in the Lira Paulistana (1945), especially with the elegiac poem Meditação sobre o Tietê. We embarked on this journey, with beginning and end in the waters, conforming his lyricism, to highlight and prove the importance of the city, especially the sinuous waters of São Paulo, as markers of his poetic journey at its source, his affirmation as a modernist and his farewell.

APONTAMENTOS SOBRE A EPOPEIA HAGIOGRÁFICA ISIDRO (1599), DE LOPE DE VEGA

2025-06-10T22:20:09+00:00

Em 1599, Lope de Vega publica a epopeia hagiográfica Isidro, cujo herói é santo Isidro, o lavrador, patrono da cidade de Madri. Este artigo pretende, retomando as preceptivas poético-retóricas antigas e modernas sobre o gênero epopeia, situar a epopeia lopiana nas discussões quinhentistas e seiscentistas sobre o gênero, especificamente sobre a manutenção do maravilhoso e o respeito ao verossímil, bem como analisar as partes quantitativas – título, proposição, invocação, dedicatória e narração –, da referida epopeia.

A IDEIA KOCH-GRÜNBERG E ELIZABETH AGASSIZ DE UM LUGAR-COMUM DE MULHERES AMAZÔNIDAS A PARTIR DAS PERSPECTIVAS DE GÊNERO.

2025-04-09T18:15:47+00:00

These writings make an important contribution to studies involving the theme of women in the Amazon. Bringing different perspectives, Elizabeth Agassiz and Theodor Koch move a widespread idea that there is a common place for Amazonian women. For this we will analyze the work of Agassiz (2000) Journey to Brazil 1865 -1866, and the works of Grunberg, Myths and Legends of the Taulipang and Arekuna Indians (1935); Two years among the indigenous people: journeys to the northwest of Brazil (1903-1905) and also From Roraima to Orinoco: observations on a journey through northern Brazil and Venezuela during the years 1911 to 1913.

“UMA EXPERIÊNCIA DE ARREPIAR”: O PODCAST COMO FERRAMENTA PARA APROXIMAÇÃO À LEITURA LITERÁRIA E À PRODUÇÃO DE TEXTOS

2025-06-10T22:11:22+00:00

This paper aims to reflect on the importance of integrating digital technologies into the process of fostering readers in today's context. Technological advancements have brought significant changes to our relationship with books, which are now also influenced by the immediacy of modern times, characterized by short videos circulated through various social media platforms. Given this scenario, it is understood as necessary to implement these tools in the school environment, starting from the understanding that they can play an important role in strengthening and engaging students in literary reading. To this end, the experiences reported by second-year high school students are investigated based on a group activity that proposed the creation of podcasts, drawing on Gothic tales from the Romantic literature movement, in Portuguese language and Brazilian literature classes. The students' feedback showed that the environment created, combining literary texts with the use of technology, promoted autonomy, bolstered self-confidence, fostered creativity, and encouraged collaboration among peers, enabling them to take on a leading role by producing content after the readings done in class. The theoretical reflections proposed here draw on the contributions of scholars who reflect on both the use of technology in the school environment and the importance of literary reading and its social role.

The poetics of reading in Ana Martins Marques and Ana Cristina Cesar

2025-06-11T22:39:49+00:00

This article aims to undertake a close reading of selected poems by Ana Martins Marques, focusing on the dialogues the Brazilian poet from Minas Gerais establishes with Ana Cristina Cesar, a poet from Rio de Janeiro. These dialogues provide a framework for examining how both poets engage with literary tradition and, moreover, for analyzing how they invoke specific figures through citations, epigraphs, and intertextual references. Moving beyond hierarchical and generational perspectives on tradition and rupture, as well as the straightforward analysis of intertextual exchanges, this study draws on theoretical contributions from Jorge Luis Borges (2000), Emir Rodríguez Monegal (1980), and Ricardo Piglia (2000), among others, to explore the library as a foundational space for the creative processes of these poets. By assuming the dual role of writer-readers, Marques and Cesar position reading as an integral and inventive component of literary creation.

TESTAMENTOS DA FINITUDE NA PEÇA AS AVES DA NOITE, DE HILDA HILST

2025-04-25T21:37:30+00:00

In the play The birds of the night a set of characters is condemned to starve and thirst in the death bunker, in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Hilda Hilst dialogues with History and creates a dramaturgical version of what happened to Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, a victim of the Nazi persecution that mowed thousands of lives on the planet. Those condemned in the Hunger basement takes on speeches that interweave disenchantment and disgust with life. Each, in its own way, evokes thoughts that aim to rationalize the abandonment in which they are inserted. The speeches and interactions between the characters reverberate the whole of a complex web of subjectivities magnetized by conflicts. Speech is a kind of testament of the end, orchestrated by the drives of a carnal, poetic and spiritualistic order that runs through the characters. The essay aims to think about how prisoners face the confirmation of death and how they build themselves in the face of the existential ruins that spreads on their bodies and their actions, most of the time more centered on internal than on the external movement, since taking into account the action of resisting occurs through thought. Hilda Hilst's characters in this play are constantly fighting immobility, amplified in the basement of hunger.

TRADUZINDO VOZES INDÍGENAS: LETRAMENTO E INTERCULTURALIDADE NO ENSINO DE INGLÊS EM UMA ESCOLA PÚBLICA DO ESPÍRITO SANTO

2025-05-18T12:35:12+00:00

This article examines an educational project developed between 2019 and 2023 in a public school in Espírito Santo, Brazil, which integrated English language teaching, translation practices, and narratives of the Kotiria (Wanano) people from the Amazon. Based on a trilingual book series (Kotiria-Portuguese-English), students rewrote the story Wa’i Duhi Ta’ri Hire (From Birds to Fish), exploring multiple translation modes (textual, visual, audiovisual). The study shows that intercultural translation, when contextualized, enhances critical literacy by: (1) improving linguistic skills in both the mother tongue and the additional language; (2) fostering metalinguistic and intercultural awareness; and (3) challenging epistemic hierarchies through the valorization of Indigenous knowledge. The analysis also reveals that working with Indigenous texts in public schools acts as resistance to the coloniality of knowledge, repurposing English – often associated with hegemony – as a tool for amplifying marginalized voices. The findings advocate for pedagogical practices that connect language teaching, decoloniality, and cultural diversity.

A POÉTICA INDÍGENA NO CONTEXTO ESCOLAR: CAMINHOS PARA VALORIZAÇÃO DA CULTURA ANCESTRAL

2025-04-09T18:10:31+00:00

Este trabalho visa abordar a cultura dos povos originários, despertar o interesse pela leitura e escrita e investigar o processo de construção da identidade cultural dos povos indígenas em sala de aula. Como também, colocar em evidência a literatura indígena produzida por escritores indígenas no contexto escolar, para assim desconstruir estereótipos e visões equivocadas sobre os povos ancestrais. A proposta é relevante uma vez que, os alunos conheceram as diversas obras de autores indígenas existentes e produzidas na Amazônia. Nesta perspectiva, ao ter acesso e conhecimento desta literatura, é mostrar a resistência desses povos, os quais durante muito tempo sofreram uma tentativa de silenciamento. A problemática emerge partindo do pressuposto de que é oferecido dentro dos espaços escolares, vivências descontextualizadas e que não fazem parte da ancestralidade dos estudantes. Para o aporte teórico foram selecionados Graúna (2013); Kambeba (2018); Munduruku (2018). Como resultados mais expressivos, a pesquisa possibilitou a valorização da cultura dos povos indígenas e de todo seu acervo ancestral, através das produções poéticas dos estudantes e contribuiu para o processo de descolonização escolar fazendo valer a Lei 11.645/08, que visa garantir nos estabelecimentos de ensino fundamental e de ensino médio, públicos e privados, a obrigatoriedade do estudo da história e cultura indígena.

THE THE JESUIT MISSIONS TRIBUTARY TO INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN PORTUGUESE AMERICA

2025-04-29T18:59:55+00:00

This article aims to understand the role of the teachings transmitted to the Jesuits by the indigenous people who occupied the regions of Portuguese America, as well as the influence of ancestral knowledge for the success of the Jesuit missions during the colonial period. From the reading and analysis of excerpts from the first letters of Fathers Manoel da Nóbrega and José de Anchieta, aspects are identified that corroborate the idea that the success of the missions was due to the learning that the priests of the Society of Jesus had in living with the natives. Finally, it seeks to point out possible paths that value this indigenous knowledge so that it occupies its place within a broader educational panorama.

DISCURSIVIDADE PÓS-COLONIAL E A ESCRITA LITERÁRIA DE YTANAJÉ CARDOSO EM CANUMÃ: A TRAVESSIA

2025-04-09T18:05:37+00:00

Ytanajé Coelho Cardoso is an indigenous writer of Munduruku descent, author of the novel Canumã: a travessia, published in 2019. The novel tells the stories and experiences of a traditional Munduruku people who live in a region bathed by the Canumã River, located in the state of Amazonas. The term crossing suggests a look at the transformations that afflict the traditional roots of an indigenous community. Thus, the construction of this narrative raises awareness about the preservation of the indigenous cultural legacy, seeking, above all, to keep alive the language and memories of a historically neglected and silenced people. That said, we present an analysis based on a reading of Ytanajé Cardoso's novel in the light of postcolonial discourse. According to Ana Mafalda Leite (2020), postcolonialism includes discursive and performative strategies that frustrate the colonial vision of order. In other words, it is a practice that goes against dominant discourses. When thinking about the place of Original Peoples in history, Pachamama (2020) highlights the construction of their invisibility as historical subjects and emphasizes the pulsating protagonism of these peoples. Historiography presents an exclusionary discourse, a limited view of the peoples of the forest. Ytanajé Cardoso's writing thus represents a position that goes against the stigmas and mistaken views rooted in our society. Thus, the construction of a narrative text by an indigenous author, especially a novel that is still little explored in the Amazon indigenous literature scene, is a political act and follows a path of reconstruction and knowledge.

O TRATAMENTO DIDÁTICO DO CORDEL INDÍGENA PARA A FORMAÇÃO DO LEITOR LITERÁRIO NO ENSINO MÉDIO

2025-05-08T11:26:21+00:00

The aim of this research is to discuss the importance of didactic work with indigenous literature to improve the training of literary readers in the context of secondary education from the perspective of literary literacy, with an emphasis on the use of cordel poetry by the Brazilian indigenous writer Auritha Tabajara, especially her work “Coração na aldeia, pés no mundo” (2018). To do this, we present some fundamental considerations about indigenous literature and indigenous string poetry (Thiél, 2012; Graúna, 2013; Dorrico et al., 2018; Tabajara, 2018; Gomes; Goulart, 2019; Ribeiro, 2020; Santos et al, 2020; Testa; Ferreira, 2021; Nascimento; Silva; Campanholi, 2023; Siqueira; Martins de Araújo, 2024), the formation of literary readers and literary literacy practices (Conceição; Gomes, 2016; Cosson, 2018; Carmo; Melian, 2020; Rocha; Silva, 2020; Matos; Testa, 2021), following a qualitative methodology based on a literature review. The results show that Tabajara's indigenous cordel poetry in secondary education can be used to train more critical, sensitive readers who are aware of Brazil's cultural plurality and capable of acting actively in society, understanding the benefits of the literary text, which transcends the school and permeates the most diverse social and cultural contexts. We conclude that the proposed theme contributes to rethinking the didactic use of indigenous literature in literary literacy practices in secondary school classrooms, through the use of cordel poetry as an opportunity to recognise indigenous culture.

Between Between Voices and Frontiers

2025-04-30T16:01:33+00:00

Literature is a space for historically marginalized groups' self-expression, such as indigenous peoples, allowing them to present their worldview without the mediation of scientific and/or institutional discourse. With this in mind, the aim of this study is to analyze an excerpt from the work O vento espalha minha voz originária, by Eliane Potiguara, regarded as a significant female and feminist voice in the defense of indigenous rights. The theme is justified by the need for greater visibility of indigenous authors in universities, so that such recognition may be extended to basic education and society at large. This research focuses on the tradition perpetuated by indigenous women and the testimonial nature of their narratives, as well as the process by which indigenous literature often gains international recognition before being valued nationally. This dynamic is understood through Bakhtin’s concept of centrifugal forces, which explain how the dissemination of discourse across different social and cultural spheres affects its recognition and visibility. Supported by the contemporary indigenous literary movement and bakhtinian theory, the study highlights the construction of a lyrical-political "I-we" that emerges as both political activism and cultural expression. Methodologically, the research adopts a qualitative, linguistic-discursive approach, aiming to contribute to the visibility of indigenous literature and, more specifically, to emphasize the power of Eliane Potiguara’s work as a space of intersection between tradition, resistance and self-affirmation of indigenous peoples.

REPRESENTATIONS OF INDIGENOUS FEMALE RESISTANCE IN O KARAÍBA, BY DANIEL MUNDURUKU

2025-05-18T12:18:04+00:00

This paper proposes to discuss the forms of indigenous female resistance brought by the characters Maraí and Potyra in O Karaíba (2010), by Daniel Munduruku, in dialogue with A mulher habitada (2000), by Gioconda Belli. The concept of resistance proposed here is read as the valorization of subjectivities and existences that have been historically invisible. Literary studies about resistance have been largely discussed based on the definition proposed in the text Narrativa e Resistência by Alfredo Bosi (1996), which consists of two dimensions: resistance as a theme and resistance as eminent writing. However, this analysis was based on the expansion of the meanings that the term resistance suggests, pointing the different forms of survival of marginalized social groups, because in the face of the unquestionable nullities of being crossed by the effects of colonialism, significant forms of resistance and reaffirmation of identities fractured by power relations. Therefore, the novel O Karaíba reverberates the history/memory of indigenous people in Brazil during the colonial period, erased by invaders. The research was with a bibliographical nature and is anchored in the light of the theories of Gayatri Spivak (2010); Halbawachs (1968); Benjamim (1989); Anilbal Quijano (2006); Alfredo Bosi (1996); Daniel Munduruku (2010), among others.

UMA ANÁLISE DO PROGRAMA AÇÃO SABERES INDÍGENAS NA ESCOLA

2025-06-17T14:45:55+00:00

The Brazilian Ministry of Education’s (MEC) program, titled Ação Saberes Indígenas na Escola (ASIE) [Indigenous Knowledges in School Action], established by Ordinance No. 98 in December 2013, aims to provide continuing education for teachers working in Indigenous School Education and to conduct research for the development of teaching materials in Indigenous languages. This article presents the results of a bibliographic study that sought to identify and describe the contributions found in selected texts regarding the ASIE program. To this end, it surveys academic articles and graduate theses on the subject. The findings indicate that the ASIE program contributes to the valorization of Indigenous knowledges, languages, cultures, and identities, as well as to Indigenous agency. However, it also highlights the need for improvements and the continuity of ASIE.

CORPOS MARCADOS, VOZES RESISTENTES: MULHERES INDÍGENAS NA LITERATURA COMO ESPAÇO DE EMPODERAMENTO

2025-03-03T12:11:01+00:00

Este estudo aborda o papel das mulheres indígenas na literatura contemporânea, com ênfase nas obras das autoras Márcia Kambeba e Sony Ferseck. A pesquisa analisa as opressões vivenciadas por essas mulheres em dimensões culturais e sociais. O referencial teórico de Graça Graúna (2013) e Truduá Dorrico (2018) fornece alicerces conceituais sólidos para esta análise, destacando a relevância da representação autêntica e da narrativa própria na literatura indígena. A metodologia adotada envolve a aplicação do conceito de escrevivência, termo cunhado pela escritora Conceição Evaristo, além de revisão bibliográfica e análise crítica das obras de Kambeba e Ferseck, visando compreender suas contribuições para a compreensão das vozes e experiências das mulheres indígenas. Os resultados revelam que as narrativas dessas autoras oferecem uma visão profunda e sensível da vida das mulheres indígenas contemporâneas, evidenciando sua resiliência, força e luta por justiça e igualdade, inclusive contra a violência que afeta seus corpos. Os poemas analisados refletem a invisibilidade e o silenciamento enfrentados pelas mulheres indígenas, ao mesmo tempo em que celebram sua capacidade de resistência e transformação. Ambas as autoras proporcionam uma perspectiva singular das experiências e desafios enfrentados por suas comunidades, contribuindo significativamente para o corpus da literatura de Língua Portuguesa contemporânea. Por fim, esta pesquisa ressalta a importância de reconhecer, valorizar e preservar as narrativas das mulheres indígenas na literatura, não apenas como um registro cultural, mas como uma voz proeminente e necessária que ecoa através do tempo, demandando seu espaço e reconhecimento no cenário literário nacional e internacional.

ANDANÇAS LITERÁRIAS DO ESCRITOR INDÍGENA TIAGO HAKIY

2025-05-23T14:48:29+00:00

A seguir acompanhem o breve bate-papo que tivemos com Tiago Hakiy. Nesta entrevista, ele comenta um pouco sobre a sua trajetória de vida como escritor e o processo de criação de suas obras, assim como a importância das literaturas indígenas no Brasil.