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this article intends to investigate how the writer Igiaba Scego, in the novel The Color Line (2020), revisits the Italian past to demonstrate that Italy was built as white by hiding people of other ethnic-racial origins from its history. The question about the non-white Italian past draws the attention of the two protagonists: Lafanu Brown, a black American with indigenous origins, who travels to Italy in the 19th century to become a painter; and Leila, an Italian-Somali art curator who researches Lafanu's work in contemporary times. Through the perspective of both, we get to know an Italy full of monuments that prove the passage of people from other cultures through the peninsula. Furthermore, Scego discusses the contemporary cultural identity of subjects who were born and/or raised in Italy, but who have other cultural backgrounds. Our aim is to shed light onto a little known past (even for Italians) and reinforce the need for a debate regarding this identity formation in which different cultural identities intersect. In this sense, the analysis carried out here will consider authors from different theoretical-methodological perspectives that deal with themes previously mentioned, such as Giuliani (2013), Mbembe (2018), Hall (2019), and Otele (2021). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the "hyphenated identities" present in America, the present essay addresses the role of fragmentation, identity and identification, and tradition in the African American experience as portrayed in Toni Morrison's Sula. Through the lenses of both African American Studies and Identity Studies, the works of Vashti Crutcher Lewis ("African Tradition in Toni Morrison's Sula") and Stuart Albert ("The Definition and Metadefinition of Identity"), respectively, will be used to ponder how identity -- individual and collective -- reacts to strict measurement, and how the experience of African Americans is divided under the two points of reference that compose its nomenclature.1 One may ask, then, how traditions which have been forcefully erased make a claim on the present, even when and where they are at a disadvantage, and how (if at all) identification is possible when obliteration has already occurred; how traditions and experiences co-exist in an environment which favours hierarchy and limitation. Additionally, how do representations of past traditions move in territories and cultures which reject them, and in what ways is fluidity possible? Can the solution be found in the convergence of the opposed experiences, or is there a side to be picked at all times? In what ways does the revelation of hybridity to oppressed and suppressed societies trigger a selfawareness from which there is no escaping? And what is the role of creation and creativity amidst these tensions, considering that identity is composed by the same questions that challenge it? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is the local? This is one of the most controversial questions the local turn in peacebuilding faces. For some, the local refers to institutions and social movements, while others understand it as networks or processes in flux. Critics argue, among other points, that this literature tends to reify an international-local binary, whereas others emphasize the incoherence of adopting anti-foundationalist ontologies while defending the possibility of emancipation. In this article, I discuss these subjects through the lens of Ernesto Laclau's political theory and propose to frame the local as a form of non-essentialist collective identity. To do this, I review recent contributions to the local turn and identify some of its controversies. Considering the theoretical lacuna found, I propose Laclaunian concepts, such as the people, antagonism, and hegemony, as conceptual alternatives. Finally, I present some consequences to the study of peacebuilding which this type of discussion might open. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores cyberfeminist participation, with a focus on the 8M movement, the most recent international feminist strike front, which repoliticizes the feminist movements of this century (Arruzza et al., 2019), and is characterized as a mobilization that is a consequence of the association between the online and the street (Zimmerman, 2017). To better understand the construction of intersectional feminism through digital activism, we performed a netnographic analysis of the Instagram profile of the Rede 8 de Março, which organizes the strike in Portugal, during the month of March 2021 - still in pandemic period - evidencing the use of hybridity as a tool for construction and mobilization. After the analysis, semi-structured interviews were carried out with participants of the collective that organizes the strike. The main results reveal the recurrence of themes around misogyny violence and domestic work and show the importance of hybrid feminist activism in the construction of a transnational movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the multiplicity of media and the participation of users in the process of constructing information today. In this scenario, the documentary finds in transmedia narrative a possibility of adopting multiple languages through the crossing of contents in different media. In this way, bibliographical research debates how the transmedia documentary can contribute to safeguarding a community’s knowledge, considered cultural heritage. Therefore, the study uses the writings of Jenkins, Gosciola and Renó to discuss transmedia documentary. The research results show that nowadays, the multiplicity of voices finds in the multiplicity of records the perpetuation of knowledge and actions through the constitution of virtual communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cultural formation of Brazil has always been linked to the aspects of its plurality. The contact between multiple cultures established an important role for the reformulation of practices appropriated by local conditions, which revitalized their cultural identity. Thus, in this article he proposes to work on these cultural issues in The Cortiço, by Aluísio Azevedo, on the perspective of Cultural Studies, in order to point out the cultural views that Brazil constituted in the novel. For this purpose, concepts such as multicultural ism and multiculturalism in Hall (2003) were used as theoretical basis, as well as discussions about the powers of capital in Bourdieu (1987) and the notions of cultural interactions -- aculturation, transculturation and hybridism --in Fernando Ortiz (1983), Peter Burke (2006) and Rama (2008). As results obtained, he came to the conclusion that the novel presents two distinct cultural views, which we call macro and microcosmic of the novel: in the first, society is culturally divided into high and low culture, and its distinction is operationalized on coercive action of social factors expressed in the trajectory of João Romão, and in the second, cultural contact mediates the integralization of differences, contributing to the idealization of Brazilian culture in cultural hybridism embodied in mulattos - Firmo, Porfiro and Rita Baiana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study, based on Bibliographic Review and Text Analysis, presents a brief analysis of Brazilianness in Maria Bethânia's music from the historical record of Brasileirinho (Quitanda/Biscoito Fino, 2003-2004). Themes such as the cultural anthropophagy and the relationship between music and the cultural identity of the performer since its appearance in the Brazilian music scene in 1965 are proposed. As a theoretical contribution, the concept of identity, studies on Anthropophagy stand out (ANDRADE, 2017), the aesthetics and language of Maria Bethânia's musical work, in addition to the interpretative analysis of the texts. The intention is to present a debate on the construction of the National Identity based on the featured work, according to the precepts of Brazilian modernist authors, creators of the Week of Modern Art (1922). The three great matrixes of national identity - African, Indigenous and European - form the horizon for the analysis of songs, arrangements, poems, pictures and interpretations recorded in the work, in order to contribute to the reflection on cultural relations, hybridism (CANCLINI, 2010 ), in critical evaluation of European standards, in force in Brazilian society, which, consequently, marginalizes the traditional and native identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is an approach to the poetry and theater of João Cabral de Melo Neto from the epic point of view, in order to recognize in Morte e vida severina (1955) and in Auto do frade (1984) epic matters that support the affirmation of the hybrid character of two works, without, however, having any intention of fixing or categorizing them, but, on the contrary, intending to put into practice the thought-provoking exercise of contemplating them in the light of hybridism in the literature. For this, the presence of the two plans that integrate epic works (the historical and the mythical) will be highlighted, configuring the epic matter: the representation of heroism and the aesthetic specificities that draw this hybridity. In addition, the approach aims to be a tribute to the centenary of João Cabral de Melo Neto, who, in 2020, would have turned 100 years old. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The autobiographical novel on its own terms is a sort of transgression of what one understands as fiction. By drawing upon places, people and even true events inserted into literary productions, the autobiographical novel ends up creating narratives and novels of the self. Consequently, the blur between reality and fiction brings to the fore not only hybridism but also fragmentation. By analyzing João Silvério Trevisan's Pai, pai (2017) taking as theoretical framework Samoyault's (2008), Watt's (2010) and Lejeune's (2008) contributions, the findings of this research highlight how difficult it is to label that genre as well as the legitimacy of its free form, in other words, its fragmented feature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE PRESENT STUDY IS CHARACTERIZED AS A THEMATIC RESEARCH PROPOSAL FROM THE JUNCTION OF TWO TERRITORIAL CONCEPTS - SANCTUARY AND SQUARE - AS A BASIS FOR RENEWING THE STUDY MODELS OF RELIGIOUS TOURISM. THE TEXT IS DEVELOPED AS A PROJECT WHOSE STARTING POINT IS THE KEY IDEA OF CULTURAL HYBRIDISM, A FOUNDATION FOR TOURIST-RELIGIOUS VISITATION PRACTICES IN DEVOTIONAL SPACES, WHICH IN THE STATE OF CEARÁ CAN, METHODOLOGICALLY, BE CONSIDERED "SANCTUARY-SQUARE" IN A COMPLEX PERSPECTIVE. SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS NEW APPROACH ARE BASED ON THE STRENGTH OF THE IDEA OF TOURIST RELIGIOSITY, WHICH EXPANDS FROM THE CENTRAL SPACES OF VISITATION TO THE MULTIPLE AND MARGINAL SPACES OF RITUALIZATION - IN THE INDIVIDUAL, IN THE COLLECTIVITY AND IN THE LANDSCAPES OF STAGING FOR BOTH. IN ADDITION TO ROUTES AND PATHS OF COMMUNITY TRADITIONS, EXPERIENCED ON A PILGRIMAGE REGIME, CEREMONIAL MEETINGS AND MARGINAL EVENTS, CAPABLE OF REPLACING THE OLD "POPULAR" CATHOLICISM WITH FORMS AS CATHOLIC AS SECULAR FROM RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION TRIPS. EXEMPLIFICATION TO CLOSE THE STUDY, THE LYRICS OF THE SONG BY THE COMPOSER CHICO CÉSAR - A PROSA IMPÚRPURA DE CAICÓ (HTTPS://WWW.LETRAS.MUS.BR/CHICO-CESAR/45189/) - WILL BE USED TO PORTRAY THE HYBRID FEELINGS THAT INVOLVE A SACRED AND HYBRID TERRITORY LIKE THE SANCTUARY OF OUR LADY OF HEALTH, IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF TABULEIRO DO NORTE, STATE OF CEARÁ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Situating in what we call Latin American existential hybridism, this text represents one of the "efforts of the area to extend its academic conversation beyond the national borders in which it is practiced" (Pinar, 2006, p. 165) placing it in the center the concern with the trends in the networks of knowledge circulation on a planetary level of what is called "epistemic violence" (Spivak) or curricular "epistemicide" (Santos, 2014, Paraskeva, 2016). Thus, what we could call as a curricular field in Latin America enters this international conversation, aware of its hybrid character, a crossbreed field, which seeks to displace the internationalization movement of curricular studies, fighting against a propensity to normalize "linguistic, cultural and racial differences under the authorized canon of Euro-American rationality" (Ropo and Autio, 2009, p. 3), inscribing the concepts of conversation and intercultural dialogue at the center of the international conversation on curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It was in the field of literary visual and spatial experimentations, the matter of which all poetry is made of, that the morphological, phonetical, syntactical and semiological research is still being carried on. The dissolution of the significant and the signified is regarded as a subversion of the syntax, the semantics and the spelling of the language, an invention of new ways of writing and the demand for new ways of reading, for an active engagement of the reader in the process of decoding the text. Reading and interpreting this hybrid composition, in which the verbal and the non-verbal become intricate, requires the understanding that we are before a playful game, at once rational and experimental, dealing with all the dimensions of the linguistic sign: visual, sound and meaning. We aim at a more amplified conceptual theory frame by resorting to authors varying from different artistic schools from the fifties up to the eighties, such as the New York School, the Black Mountain College and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E School. Subversion is the key-code. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The confluence between visual and verbal communication and the hybridism of texts in the contact between word and image represent a perspective that is being rediscovered in literary and cultural studies. This dialogue, as much innovative as it seems to be, is not a novelty in the field of arts not even in literature since, from a historical perspective, artistic thresholds are part of the History of Knowledge and Art. Hybrid and interartistic narratives are composed of newspaper articles, drawings, photographs, maps and a peculiar textual provision that goes beyond the traditional conception of what is meant by novel. By incorporating, above all, other artistic manifestations, such works are called hybrid and interartistic narratives, and this article intends to reflect on this plural and heterogeneous writing movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the album Music in exile (2015), the Malinese group Songhoy Blues entered on mediatic spaces commonly occupied by artists associated with mass music. Based on Semiotics of Culture, the aim is to analyze how the dynamics of the album, its semiotic boundaries, produces difference in pop music official memory in the media. The contributions of poststructural and postcolonial criticism seek the political meaning of hybridizations, which inscribe diasporic and alternative meanings. Music in exile is created in the agencements of the blends of musical genres, usually centralized to the West, and thus reorganizes musical identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La escritura de El moro expósito forma parte de un proyecto más amplio en el que se involucran buen número de exiliados liberales. Acusados de afrancesados y anti-españoles por sus enemigos, que los equiparan a los 'moros' y los expulsan física y simbólicamente del espacio nacional, se ven obligado a crear una nueva identidad en la que ellos tengan cabida. Proponen una versión alternativa de la historia en la que el enfrentamiento con los musulmanes no se percibe en términos de reconquista, sino de guerra civil. En ese contexto aparece la obra del duque de Rivas. Mudarra, bastardo, híbrido, mezcla de cristiano y musulmana, simboliza una nueva España más abierta e inclusiva, pero no por ello menos auténtica. La escritura de la obra le sirve a Rivas para probar que existe una tradición española que enlaza con algunos de los componentes más característicos del pensamiento liberal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to investigate the modernization process that occurred in Afro-Brazilian religions and the importance attributed to the written and visual production in the learning process of the devotees of the terreiro Santa Bárbara do Portão do Gelo (Ilê Axé Oyá Meguê or Terreiro de Xambá, as is better known). To this end, I use Nestor García Canclini's concept of hybridization, which conceives it as an unforeseen result of migratory processes of economic, communicational exchange, among others. From field investigations, I seek to demonstrate that xambazeiros perpetuate their tradition and their knowledge through hybrid and reconversion processes, to accompany the transformations required by the contemporary Afro-religious world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is the state of animation research in Brazil today? This was the question that mobilized us to interview six Animation researchers, from different university institutions and with the most diverse relations with the field of Animation. The interviews were conducted by e-mail - due to the corona virus pandemic - and also because of the geographical location of each one, which would not allow the face-to-face interview. In this interview, they present an overview of the situation of research in Animation in Brazil today; talk about the authors with whom they dialogue; present the main lines of research in Brazil and in the world; show how digital technology has expanded the presence of Animation in other areas such as live-action cinema, visual arts and advertising; and point out some perspectives for the field of animation in the coming years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis of images of the photographer Tiago Santana, from Ceará, demonstrates how his aesthetic elaborates a hybrid composition of human and animal bodies. His pictures in symbiosis, highlight the interdependence of beings in the Brazilian backwoods, through several technical choices. In this article, we study how the shadow is used as a fictional and causing element of the changing in identity, establishing, in Santana 's work, a visual paradox characteristic of the contemporary art photography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review article establishes a series of reflections on the relations between Latin American literature and contemporary aesthetics, and the ways in which the specific artistic languages redimension the fictional statute and its critical potential. It also considers innovative perspectives that escape canonical narrative and traditional genre categorization by imposing new aesthetic expressions and themes in which the experience of textual or physical displacement is present. This paper explores a corpus of contemporary narrative works whose creative practices and discursive procedures operate on the frontier of genre, languages and forms of expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks at two sorts of conceptual work in Cristina Rocha's John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing (2017): theoretical appliqué and comparative contextualization. The first involves using an ad hoc set of concepts to set out series of partial interpretations. Despite not offering one unified interpretation, this approach has the advantages of respecting the complexity of the case and indicating a range of relevant interpretative pathways. The second involves the standard work, in the study of religion, of placing the religious movement or other object of study in relation to its religious landscape, influences and competitors, by comparing and contrasting beliefs and practices. Though the book would be better if both of these dimensions of conceptual work had been pushed further, Rocha's theoretical appliqué is worth considering for its value as a model for other work. The goal of this article is to highlight the value of theoretical appliqué and to suggest how it could be done effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The borders that limit countries set its sovereingty after its boundaries. This is the official characteristic of the borders. However, whenever we talk about the border as a geographic area that aggregates at least two different nationalities, two sovereign laws, and two languages, we notice that the official borders are of interests only for the bureaucratic life of its inhabitants. To them, so many other invisible borders are involved, which are far more complex since they are not determined by rules and laws that cause us, researchers of language and society, fascination and curiosity to research. This paper makes part of a larger study that aims at verifyinghow the inhabitants of the border Chuí-Chuy deal with linguistic and cultural hybridisms and how this diversity is materialized in the discourses and in the social practices of the daily chores of the border inhabitants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The disjunctive thinking was born with the Cartesian formulation of res cogitans and res extensa and was institutionalized by modern dualism both in philosophy and science, leaving as a legacy the radical isolation of different pieces of knowledge. It is this dualism that still underlies the model of education adopted today, in the 21st century, in a world in which complexity only grows, and the human experience with the so-called reality is hybridizing. The aim of this article is to discuss what is the space of change that exists since this conception of an orderly, predictable and stable world; and yet, with regard specifically to the school-society issue, to point out how it is possible to transform this relationship in order to make it more meaningful in the hypercomplex context in which we live today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The twentieth century has potentiated various cultural phenomena and has given rise to several new ones. Culture has developed fully. With the convergence of communicational, cultural and social factors such as hybridism, cyberculture and globalization, the terrain was fertilized for the birth of the so-called Nobrow: a new communication phenomenon directly linked to new technologies and new media, in particular to cyberspace, which has given rise to a new culture of the same name with the cultural flow and the universalized dialogue of information provided by technological empowerment on a world scale; thus bringing about a democratization of the material and immaterial goods created by culture. It is a new moment in the cultural history of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A once high-profile post-colonial writer, it is noticeable that the London-Nigerian novelist and essayist Ben Okri has all but dropped out of view as far as the literary establishment is concerned. While his earlier works still receive much academic attention and are deemed highly influential, critical engagements with his later fiction are almost non-existent. With this in mind, our aim is to map out the many transformations the author's work has gone through and offer explanations as to the reasons behind certain negative receptions of the author's work. To understand the new directions the author's current writings have taken, one must analyse the totality of his novelistic writings as a single collective body striving towards a sustained renovation of the literary form. Our premise is that this experimentation might, contrary to its aim, be hampering the author's success, and our study shall, therefore, examine in detail the experimental nature of these later works and offer a series of perceptions as to their possible shortcomings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The English punk movement produced disruptions with the mainstream rock music of the phonographic industry, but after a while, its aesthetic was established as a crystallized formula. On the Sandinista! (1980) album, the English band The Clash moves away from this musical rigidity by moving to the boundaries, getting in touch with other cultures and their textual agencements. This change is a fundamental aspect in the hybrid language's construction of the album, that differs from the punk rock identity. Based on Cultural Studies and Semiotic of Culture, this article aims to demonstrate how did the group set forth an art type of political and musical frontier with the so-called Third World, using texts (dub, jazz, soul, hip hop, calypso) that create a semiotic which differs from the regimes of the british punk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the novel Bello animal (2002), written by Colombian author, Fanny Buitrago. Based on contributions from Beatriz Preciado, R.W. Connell, Sayak Valencia, Santiago Castro Gómez, among others, this analysis focuses on the four male main characters of the story and demonstrates the existence of a change in the construction of masculinity as the result of the emergence of a media-globalized society and the breakdown of the disciplinary systems of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. Additionally, the analysis shows the consolidation, always in tension with other types of masculinity, of a hegemonic transnational masculinity in present Latin American societies. Finally, this paper reiterates the need to rethink the concept of hegemonic masculinity as a hybrid block where local, regional and global plans constantly interact, and to analyze how the strengthening of capitalism jeopardizes certain masculinities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The central idea of this text is to reflect on the construction of the field of Sports and Leisure Public Policy (PPEL). Throughout the text, he seeks to compare the construction of the field with others, such as anthropology. Understanding that there is always a degree of normativity in defining what is inside and outside a given identity, makes a description about some classifications of the field, proposing an analysis of the production from the research objects. It deals with issues related to the analysis of public policies beyond the analysis of the State, including the relationship of this with society as an important object for the field. Advocating in favor of a hybrid understanding, where several disciplines constitute it and that has an interdisciplinary character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mozambique's cultural identity is forged by the force of dialogue and functional articulation of different identities. In this regard, Mia Couto's work is distinguished by the unique way he brings together the wealth of this mechanism, asserting itself as an original party in the national identity building process to which many identity elements contribute to form the Mozambican specificity in set of Africanness. Time traveler, Mia Couto makes Mozambican history (and identity) summing up a huge set of stories, marks of an ancestral knowledge that proves necessary for the construction of a new identity paradigm - an identity that is built on a compromise between past and present - that the author tunes in each new work because he is recognized as "mulatto of existences" that yearns for future hope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an analysis of Veronica's Stigger work, Opisanie Świata (2013), focusing on the construction of this narrative. The discussions are directed, first, around the theories of novel and romance, in order to perceive the characteristics of the narrative that link to these two genres. Then the idea of contemporary, developed by Agamben (2009), will be linked to work at the same time discussing the presence of the narrative in the era of multiplicity, based on the theoretical concepts of Resende (2008). This is a bibliographic research based on the postulates of Bakhtin (2010), Carneiro (2005), Eikhenbaum (1971), Soares (2007), among others. Through the analysis, the text presents the work of Stigger as a hybrid narrative resulting from the merger between romance and novel, and indicates the points that characterize the work as belonging to the era of multiplicity, along with aspects of contemporary idea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alfonso Reyes's Última Tule exhibits a mix of history, philosophy of history, blatant self-referential discourse, literature, and ideological proclamation that becomes disquieting, owing to the frequent feeling of unrest produced by everything hybrid; that is, by any product, entity, or process that defies established taxonomies. This fact is neither rare nor unconscious in Reyes's oeuvre, especially with regard to his essays, th a t"centaur of genres'' so dominant in his work. Curiously, his propensity to hybridity always goes hand-in-hand with a parallel and apparently contradictory aspiration to an Apollonian coherence. Última Tule provides a key to the understanding of this antinomy in Reyes. The monstrosity concerning genre that characterizes this particular text acquires a sense of unity through the combined strength of three axes of cohesion. First, Última Tule develops a pervasive idea according to which history, either in the sense of a chronicle of the past or of the very past itself, is always seen as a sort of verbal construction ruled by a poetics close to those tised in literature, but without eschewing on that account an unwavering claim to truth. Second, it argues for a complementary conception of Latin America qua heterogeneous discursive field. Finally, and as a seemingly ineluctable consequence of those first two points, Última Tule defends a vision of the Latin American intellectual as taking the leading role in the task of deciphering, interpreting, and shaping the continent's historical developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In medieval literature there is a long tradition of feminin transvestism, from hagiography to chivalric romances. In all of them, the change of identity motif lends itself to various ambiguities and paradoxes which are the main features in Le Roman de Silence not only in syntax but also in it's main themes. The other protagonist of the text, Merlin, a hybrid character himself, who recalls the trickster --a trait shared with Silence--, is a key figure acting as a catalyst for the plot. As such, his mere apparition in the romance alerts the reader to the paradoxes and the ambiguities at the core of a work whose trickster-like characteristics are examined as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between religion and language is the focus of renewed attention in the Brazilian graduate programs in Religious Studies through Congress working groups and areas of concentration devoted to the study of what is conventionally called Religious Languages. This article proposes a link to this new field of study through a semiotic and cognitive approach, suggesting the study of religion as a secondary language system through three fundamental semiotic systems: gesture, image (metaphor) and narrative. Their religious counterparts are ritual, icon (poetry) and myth. These three systems work together as hybrid and multi codified cultural texts, with a high level of power in creating new messages. Finally, the article also discusses the fictional and grotesque aspects of religious expressions as well as some of its distinctive features. According to them, besides the fact that religion structures the world, religion tends to stress and explicit the "as if" games of culture, and pushes cultural representations to the borders of its established systems. Religion proposes to culture dense and kaleidoscopic representation systems, who articulate textually ambiguous and paradoxal aspects of social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Em O beijo da mulher aranha, obra considerada como marco da produção literária do autor argentino Manuel Puig (1932-1990), vemos a dois personagens, Molina e Valentín, em um longo texto que se assemelha ao texto dramático que é marca preponderante do romance. No entanto, dentro desse amplo diálogo, a obra de Puig apresenta, ademais, planos de profundidade intermidiática, seja através de um processo de criação e recriação cinematográfica por parte de um dos personagens, seja também através de uma série de textos marcados por características não-literárias, como relatórios de investigação, notas de rodapé, transcrições de interrogatórios, que conformam um desafio aos limites romanescos e implode as estruturas convencionais do romance. Desse modo, este trabalho terá por objetivo apresentar como esta fluidez textual, marcada pelo literário e pelo não-literário, é imprescindível à produção de Manuel Puig, caracterizando-se como uma marca pessoal de seu fazer literário e que atinge seu momento de maior riqueza em O beijo da mulher aranha. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabalho busca verificar, através da análise do álbum Maritmo (1998), de Adriana Calcanhotto, de que forma a cantora e compositora, a partir da incorporação de elementos do imaginário tropicalista, realça as relações com as linguagens sonora, visual e verbal, próprias do discurso semiótico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a case of religiosity in eastern Amazon - an old woman endowed with spiritual powers of healing -, this Paper discusses some conceptual implications of the use of certain terminologies. How far can the terms "modern bricolage" and "postcolonial hybridism" hermeneutically reach in the analysis of a case of intense religious-spiritual exchange? We have articulated the case study with some theoretical readings and we have noticed that the empirical expression of popular religious experiences need a new semantic framework to broaden its understanding, a framework that can be built by the Sciences of Religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as influências da dinâmica de lógicas institucionais nas decisões sobre mudanças estruturais adotadas por uma cooperativa. Com esse intuito, foi realizada uma apreciação da literatura sobre o conceito de lógicas institucionais e sobre algumas peculiaridades da administração em cooperativas. Alega-se que essas organizações são híbridas e, como tal, reportam-se à complexidade institucional adotando práticas e crenças consistentes com características de mais de um ambiente institucional. Nesse sentido, a abordagem de estudo de caso qualitativo e o método de história oral basearam a pesquisa que envolveu técnicas de entrevista semiestruturada, observação não participante e análise documental. Foi realizado um resgate histórico da trajetória da Cooperativa Veiling Holambra, de 1948 a 2011, no qual foram evidenciados elementos que se relacionam com diferentes lógicas institucionais. O estudo reforça as lógicas como não excludentes e contribui na compreensão do fenômeno do hibridismo em organizações. Ademais, ele propicia que seja reavaliada a aparente contradição entre práticas com finalidade social e práticas voltadas para o mercado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sandra Cisnero's novel Caramelo or puro cuento (2002) reveals the unspoken history of four generations of the Reyes family, all of them influenced by their continuous comings and goings between Spain, Mexico and the USA. The investigation aims to examining the strategies that the protagonist and narrator uses to question hegemonic discourses about her cultural identity. To this end, we will analyze the way the narrator places herself in a third space, an uncertain and uncomfortable territory, but from which she can resignificate the binary system that regulates the notion of cultural difference. We will also study the possibilities that the hybrid narration of the novel offers to question authority, not only from a political, but also from a narrative point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Management education as developed in the United States became prominent worldwide after the end of World War Two. Many authors considered this part of the Americanization process going on in many other ways of life. This article starts by disagreeing with this current position on Americanization when dealing with management education. The objective is to present the case of the São Paulo School of Business Administration/Getulio Vargas Foundation as not being a literal replica of the US business Schools in the Brazilian educational landscape. Based upon reports of the US Mission, that was responsible for assisting in the creation of the school, and in interviews with Brazilian professors that participated in the process working with the mission, a school historiography was developed. The conclusion was that a hybrid institution resulted where the American management education model was reshaped in order to conform to Brazilian reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Religious festivals have undergone important contemporary changes since the modernization of their devotional models, processes of organization of rituals, to the processes of cultural patrimony thereof. From ethnographic reports of three religious festivals surveyed by the author in Brazil is intended to expose how these transformations enlarge the scope for the participation of different social actors - marketing agents, audiovisual production in culture, among others - in the religious. Phenomenon. In this broadened scope, agencies such actors circulate regarding the local material culture generally appropriate private collections of devotees and other local subjects, superimposed on the dynamics of ritual feasts that produce hybridity in the festive landscapes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of modern epistemologies is a theoretical challenge for understanding the complex world. It is also an ethical and political challenge, as far as it will show the exclusion and silencing of the persons led to the dehumanization, whose knowledge and worldviews were for a long time discredited as legitimate explanations and guiding for their actions. In the text I merge the idea of Boaventura de Sousa Santos concerning the "prudent paradigm of a decent life" with the thesis of Latin American "modernity-coloniality-decoloniality". Associating the diatopic hermeneutic of Santos with the pluritopic hermeneutic of Mignolo, I emphasize the urgency of a dialogue between the distinct cultural spheres, advocated by the South, as well as the urgency of decolonizing actions of the subalternities with an emphasis on particular experiences, on the translation and conjunction of differences around pluralistic projects of recognition of the subjects and their voices to expand the universal as diversality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a situation of globalization, national identity comes to be produced in the global space, where national and non-national agents operate. In this scenario, national identity does not become less important, but, on the contrary, widens its meaning and embraces other cultural dynamics, rather than the national culture alone. It is this enlargement of meaning that allows the contemporary simultaneousness of national identity and diversity. At the same time, as identities are perceived as opposed to the standardization supposedly caused by globalization, some of them acquire the value of difference and become negotiable in the global market of symbols. This process is clearly noticed at the level of social relations, which are analyzed here on the basis of descriptions of musicians found in catalogues of a World Music international trade fair. These descriptions show that social actors can now articulate identities hoping for a symbolic gain. The use of hybridity means this articulation. However, the possibilities of gains are not equally distributed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Remix and mashup designate textual forms, production techniques and creative methods that were developed in conjunction with the analogical reproduction techniques for music and film in the Twentieth Century. In the context of digital culture, in the face of automated editing and montage, and of greater flexibility in the recovery and circulation of media collections on a global scale, remix and mashup have spread as central elements of discursive practices that range from sheer entertainment to civic participation, to various forms of knowledge production. This study aims to contribute to a more meaningful integration of remix and mashup in the list of the objects of study in Applied Linguistics in two ways. Initially, we present a state of the art displaying the various concepts and ramifications of remix and mashup already established in the literature, highlighting the most significant differences between them. Then we put forward a taxonomy covering remix and mashup as textual products, production techniques and methods of creation, and we situate them in the overall ecology of transtextual relations applied linguists are already used to handling. In conclusion, it is recalled that this proposal does nothing but extend to the scope of digital culture a long tradition of studies on the strength of hybridity in cultural dynamics, and its potential for the formation of critical citizens capable of leading social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present an introduction to postcolonial thought from its origin, the main areas of study and from possible dialogues between the Anglophone and Latin American traditions. To do that, we analyze the notions of subalternity, decolonization and hybridity as a theoretical possibility to explore the post-colonial perspective in the Brazilian critical organization studies. Although the debate on post-colonialism and subordination is relatively new in organizational studies, in and out of Brazil, the literature review in the area shows that, even outside the context of post-colonial demarche, many works produced about management and organizations in Brazil took into account the same concerns of postcolonial authors. Indirectly, the works address topics that are related to the effects of colonialism on the contemporary world and still recognize the need to decolonize this field of study when considering the question of cultural dependency in Brazilian intellectual tradition and technology transfer between managerial countries of the center and the periphery, when problematize the use of theories produced in the Global North and seek references that value a look from the Global South, and they identify the strong presence of the dynamic Brazilian cultural hybridity. On the other hand, when analyzing the field of critical studies in Brazil, we find the presence of a dichotomy that tends to radicalize the center/ periphery relationship with the separation between a supposedly Brazilian critical study on organizations and critical management studies (CMS). Such distinction performs an intellectual binarism typical of colonial mentality. Such mentality in this particular case seeks to define what is and is not critical approach in Management and Organization Studies. Aiming to challenge such binary wisdom, we propose a hybridization process that aim to reconcile the two poles of the binary perspective. To conclude, we argue that the theoretical and political development of both sides depends on a perspective that exploits the fissures of colonial discourse and from a third space perspective reconfigures knowledge production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1980s, jazz fusion had great international repercussion. Based on the mix of musical languages of jazz with other genres, this style incorporated modal harmonic constructions associated with the use of technology in order to search for new timbres. In Brazil, it was seen as a symbol of modernity and considered by critics as being a musical forefront, influencing significantly instrumental music groups. This study focuses on the musical production of the Medusa Group, formed in São Paulo by renowned Brazilian popular musicians. The purpose of this article is to understand, through a rhythmic, melodic, harmonic and structural analysis of the song Pé no Chão (Feet on the Ground), the way in which the Group Medusa blends musical elements of Brazilian and American popular styles, obtaining an hybrid sound. It also tries to identify appropriations of musical procedures from fusion, performed in the song. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes three videos available on YouTube site: Jesus Christ! The Musical, by Javier Prato (2007), The Greatest Action Story Ever Told, produced by Mad TV (2006) and The Passion of Zombie Jesus, Ira Hunter (2006). The goal is to analyze what kinds of images of Christ are being generated through new narrative practices, aesthetic and media in contemporary life, and it organizes a consistent image of Christ, observing its aim and social validation. Finally, we observed the formation of a theology reflexia, which would be a password to the image of Jesus Christ made possible by Theology traditional "Jesus, the Lamb of God." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The starting point for anthropology in cyberspace is the idea of "communication mediated by the computer". Such an idea presupposes, explicitly or implicitly, a certain exteriority of the technical objects and, at the same time, it circumscribes agentive capacity exclusively to human beings. The present paper proposes a critical reflection about these assumptions by exploring a twofold theoretical and methodological inspiration. Firstly, it approaches the classical matrix about technique in "traditional societies", as it was first conceived by M. Mauss, as a reference and it analyses the specificity attributed to the modern condition regarding technique. In a second and complementary moment , the paper advances as it systematizes the contemporary debates about agency and explores the limits of the human/technical dichotomy. Here it dwells specifically on the works of B. Latour, and the notion of cyborg. It is thus a rereading of the classical anthropological perspective regarding the approach of technique and the questioning of the modern notion of object-technical as it is applied to cyberspace. Finally, the paper discusses notions such as "usage", "appropriation" and "representation" of technical objects in the anthropological studies in cyberspace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este breve ensayo tiene la propuesta de abordar el hibridismo y la subversión de los límites en la poesía de la brasileña Ana Cristina Cesar (1952-1983), direccionando el foco al lugar de la autoría, desde las tesis de Roland Barthes y Michel Foucault hasta consideraciones contemporáneas en Giorgio Agamben, por ejemplo. Empieza por la lectura de algunos poemas del libro Cenas de Abril y también fragmentos del poema único Correspondência Completa (1979) e investiga movimientos de desestabilización de las fronteras de los géneros literarios, de los discursos o de los soportes. Algunas cuestiones examinadas teóricamente reciben en la poética de Ana C. un tratamiento formal que las retoma y reactiva, en tensión o diálogo, evidenciando en el cuerpo textual una pose enfáticamente crítica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the formal and conceptual complexities of a novella that has so far escaped wide critical attention even though it tackles similar issues to Anzaldúa's Borderlands. Like Anzaldúa's mestiza, Cota-Cárdenas' narrator finds herself floundering in uncertain territory, for she has also discovered that she cannot hold concepts or ideas within rigid boundaries. That state of dissolution of traditional formations is what Cota-Cárdenas situates at the center of the narrative. Mestizaje in Puppet does not appear as a comfortable and privileged locus, but as a painful ideological repositioning, a third space or element that works against totalizing narratives. The article illustrates how Cota-Cárdenas foregrounds the powerful identitary revision Anzaldúa would carry out in Borderlands, and contributes to the understanding of the self, of culture and the nation from the point of view of borderland subjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines its title words as descriptions of cultural fusion. Some critics have asserted that the idea of cultural mixture posits two pure cultures that come into contact, thereby trapping one in the very logic of purity that these terms promise to transcend. Although this view is found to be unpersuasive, it does call attention to the temporality of mixture. Mixed entities form, become naturalized as coherent, and then mix again to form 'new mixtures'. The question for further research is: when does mixture begin? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1930s, Gilberto Freyre's praise of mixed-race people in Brazil challenged the idea of white supremacy, contributing to the building of a new Brazilian identity. In the 1950s, Freyre projected the idea of openness and racial mixture onto the Portuguese empire, fuelling Salazar's colonial propaganda. The idea of Lusotropicalism was contested by Marvin Harris and Charles Boxer, who demonstrated that there were very few mixed-race people in Angola and Mozambique, and exposed the long history of racism in the Portuguese colonies. However, the fashionable notions of hybridism and creolization have been putting Freyre back on the map. The article exposes the limits of Freyre's approach of inter-ethnic relations, structured around the flexibility (or otherwise) of white colonists. It engages with the much more interesting but problematic approach suggested by Linda Heywood and John Thornton, who shifted to Kongo and African agency the creolization of the Atlantic. It suggests a reassessment of the real Christianization of Kongo and its complex chronology, drawing attention to the royal interests of conversion, the limits of conversion among the population, and the conditions for erosion of Christianity in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]