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In this article, I examine the official blogs of the Amores Expressos project from Brazilian publishing house, Companhia das Letras. In doing so, I argue that these webpages provide a digital glimpse into the project's evolution and some of its shortcomings. At the same time, these author-curated pages form part of the digital genealogy of Brazilian cultural production during its critical phase of internationalization in the onset of the 21st century.

This article analyzes the fictional production of Julián Fuks from the perspective of metafiction, placing his literary work in the broad spectrum of aesthetic possibilities offered by literary contemporaneity and, later, by inserting it in the context of postmodernist fiction, highlighting some of the main metafictional procedures of his novels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes the short story "2035", by Veronica Stigger, focusing in its construction over a boundary zone between the history of the Ragamuffin War and the constructed imaginary about this conflict inside South Brazil literary system. At first, studies of how the Ragamuffin War was represented in the history of literature are reviewed. Then, some pieces of news are analyzed for the purpose of understanding how the literary imaginary impacts contemporary thought in crystallizing a Ragamuffin War's romantic interpretation. Finally, "2035" is explored specifically in how this story dialogues with the history of South Brazil literature and with the contemporary popular discursiveness, rearranging the Ragamuffin War's romantic symbolism to express another side of the same myth. The results show how Stigger creates a "reverse imaginary" to Ragamuffin War, through a dystopian filter directed to what would be its bicentenary; the traditional ode to the Ragamuffin War's alleged republican values of liberty and equality is subverted in a representation of the elitist interests of those who idealized this revolution, of the not so triumphant side of this combat, of all the blood shed during this period and of the mysticism that involves the evoking of the Ragamuffin's past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the relationship between cultural and social systems within Alexandra Lopes da Cunha's novel, Demorei a gostei da Elis. The narrative has characteristics of a polysystem capable of embracing within itself other fields/systems that are constantly being questioned and put in check by the characters and the narrator. This work, of bibliographical analytical nature, in the first part, as an example of the approximation between the two theories, considers the relationship within the power system that leads to the canonization or not of a work, based on the theoretical considerations of Itamar Even-Zohar and compared to those of Pierre Bourdieu, the former evidencing the relationship between the semiotic systems and the latter the internal and external disputes of the fields of production. From this, in the second part, deepening Zohar's theory, an analysis of the systems that are presented in the narrative is built, namely: the family, the historical, the semiotic and the cultural.

This article tries to interpret the novel Pequena coreografia do Adeus (2021), by Aline Bei, in the light of psychoanalysis, considering, for that purpose, the theories related to the female psyche elaborated in Women who run with the wolves, in which the author, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, influenced by the works of C. G. Jung, explores the myths and stories of the "Wild Woman" archetype. Although this is just one interpretation among the possible ones, Estés' work proves to be an interesting reading guide, as it not only contributes to the understanding of relevant aspects of Aline Bei's book - once Pequena coreografia do Adeus revisits, with its very particular style, several recurrent elements in literature -, but offers as well a psychoanalytic look at the understanding of female authorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our aim in this article is to study the fictional text K.: relato de uma busca, by B. Kucinski, which shows the search of a father for his daughter who disappeared in April 1974, during the most violent period of the military regime. We chose to identify in the narrative the presence of apparatuses imposed by the dictatorship, which created barriers to the revelation of the truth about those who disappeared during the regime. The analysis is based upon discussions by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben about the concept of apparatus. The article is divided into three parts: in the first, we discuss the dictatorship; in the second, we discuss the concept of apparatus; and in the third, we analyze the book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we explore the short stories of Redemoinho em dia quente (2019) by Jarid Arraes to recognize the decolonial voices that inhabit the narratives and echo resistance to the daily violence experienced by being a woman. We will pay special attention to three stories: ‘Cinco mil litros’; ‘Telhado quebrado com gente morando dentro’ e ‘Gesso’. These narratives were chosen because they share resilience as a way of survival among women who subvert their destinies by not accepting physical, sexual and financial abuses and who, therefore, do not allow themselves to be colonized. Also essential to this work is the recognition of the importance of voices such as Arraes’s, a black northeastern woman in the contemporary literary scene. Jarid's voice stands out above all, for her position and understanding of her political work through her literature. Among the possible conclusions, the most urgent is the need for more and more voices such as Jarid Arraes to occupy the literary field and take over the Brazilian fictional scene: women who make literature with the wounds they carry on their bodies, and with the marks of their ancestry, conquer new spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes to discuss the outline of an epistemology of sexuality applied to studies of literature, especially the one subscribed to contemporaneity, having as theoretical assumptions two of Foucault’s concepts: episteme, formulated in The Order of Things (1966), and dispositive, presented in The History of Sexuality I (1976). The study presents a conceptual vocabulary that has been used as a tool for the analysis of characters in the realm of fiction. That way, intersectionality, masculinity/virility, feminine, gender identities, performativity and compulsory heteronormativity are concepts filled with tensions, both discursive and political.

This work focuses on Chico Buarque's novel Leite derramado, launched in 2009, and aims to analyze the treatment given to Matilde, character of the work, by the society in which she is inserted, more precisely by the social environment of the family Assumpção, which integrates, for a long period, the aristocracy of Rio. The analysis of the text is done from the perspective of identity and culture and considers political and historical aspects when shedding light on certain events that occurred in Brazil and mentioned in the work. For this purpose, the concepts of Homi K. Bhabha (1998, 2011), Lélia Gonzalez (1984), Linda Hutcheon (1991), among others, are used as theoretical support. With this, it is possible to perceive, through the narrative, the social displacements and their impacts in a prejudiced, racist and sly society.

The celebrated novel Pornopopéia, byReinaldo Moraes, represents a type of joycean Ulyssesof the city of São Paulo’s underground in the excesses of the 1980s extended to the beginning ofthe 21st century. Despite its importance in contemporary Brazilian literature and perhaps because of its literary and linguistic complexity in producing its distinct humor, it has never before been translated into English. This article reports some results of a post-doctoral research in which we carried out a literary, commented translation of this epic novel. The theoretical framework of the research was based in general on a model of language from the perspective of the Theory of Genre and Register (TGR)(MARTIN; ROSE, 2008) and on Berman’s concept of ‘tradutology’ (2012), while the translation practice was informed by adaptations of Rothenberg’s concept of ‘total translation’ (2010), Frota’s Jazz Theory (1989), Toury’s ‘norms’ (1995), Milton’s (1998) discussion of metaphors for the practice of translation. Some results point to the following features as contributing to humor and presenting distinct challenges in the process of translating them: code-mixingand switching, punning haiku, rapid changes in registers from erudite to street, sonority (hard rhymes), neologisms, blends, and other linguistic, semantic and generic transgressions, along with those of a social nature. Ultimately, with this research we hope to offer the anglophone reader the pleasure of this text by Reinaldo Moraes, simultaneously disseminating Brazilian literature and culture to a broad anglophone speech community through the translation, and ultimately contributing to reflections on the practice of translation in translation studies.

This article presents a reading of the narrative Enterre seus mortos (2018), by the contemporary Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, under the argument that, by deciding to bury the bodies of strangers at any cost so that they are not devoured by vultures, the character Edgar Wilson sets up an improbable act of compassion in an unnamed place where a precarious and almost animal life prevails. The characters, albeit in devious ways, cling to religion and Bible verses as the only glimpse of a possible life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze how the process of awareness increasing related to the condition of subalternity at the racial level happens in Torto arado (2019), by Itamar Vieira Junior. This process can be apprehended from the actions of the characters, who start to assume an active posture in the face of the traditional exploitation structure to which they are subjected. From the episodes presented by the narrators of the novel, three black women who tell their own story and that of the group they integrate, we identify, describe and interpret events that, at first, signal a stage of submission of the characters, and that, in a second moment, suggest a range of awareness regarding their subordinate condition. Our analytical propositions are based on Gayatri Spivak's (2010) considerations on the concept of subalternity; Proença Filho (2004), about the trajectory of blacks in Brazilian literature; Dalcastagnè (2008), about race relations in contemporary Brazilian literature; and Albuquerque and Fraga Filho (2006), as a historiographical reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary cultural media illustrates the vampire as an important symbolic figure in the Brazilian imaginary. For example, in twentieth and twenty-first century Brazilian fiction, television, and political discourse, vampires have risen from their supposedly European origins as expressions of urban decay, comic excess, and government corruption in Brazil. Beyond these representations, I focus on three contemporary novels in which the vampire also plays a starring role. O vampiro que descobriu o Brasil (1999) by Ivan Jaf, Aventuras do vampiro de Palmares (2014) by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, and Dom Pedro I Vampiro (2015) by Nazarethe Fonseca stand out from other creative reimaginings of the vampire within a Brazilian cultural context. Exploring fiction’s potential for rewriting dominant national narratives, they cast vampires as historical actors in order to protagonize indigenous and black “Others” in Brazilian history. However, at the same time as they rewrite both the nineteenth-century European literary origins of the vampire and the history of Brazil, they also reinscribe the modern myths of racial mixture, or mestiçagem, and cannibalism, or antropofagia, popularized by Gilberto Freyre and Oswald de Andrade, respectively. In this way, the novels exemplify the complex tension between revising and perpetuating cultural stereotypes in fictional retellings of Brazilian history.

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"Becoming-Valéria" intends to point out the production of the novelist Maria Valéria Rezende: a 76 years-old catholic missionary. The aim of this paper is to capture the affections that cross her craft of writing through an expressive body of these affections. The meeting with the author encourages a movement that starts a writing freed from a linear narrative and also from a representation that creates a distance between the authors and the writer. The relations of forces in struggle and the power to affect and to be affected of Maria Valéria's writing-body-life were presented. That's a question of becoming, in which other forces are released in the course of aging and old age in the writer's missionary life as well as in her literature. The poetic language adopted has apprehended the vibration of the affections that infected the body of the writer and the author. A language of pathos, free from the logic of representation, is the experimental option of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This dossier brings together seven interviews carried outat the Frankfurt BookFair in 2013 with the following Brazilian writers: Ana Paula Maia, BeatrizBracher, Bernardo Ajzenberg, Carola Saavedra, Ferréz, Luiz Ruffato andMarcelino Freire. The first part of each interview focusses on gender issues, inparticular on diverging concepts of masculinity and femininity in Braziliansociety and literature. These concepts are based on the theory developed by theAustralian sociologist R. W. Connell, who is one of the most distinguishedcontemporary scholars of masculinities and gender relations. The second partshifts its focus to question about the particularities of each writer‟s work, theirmain aesthetic concerns and the connections between their works.

The works of ValêncioXavier are characterized, in formal terms, by usingvarious types of images (drawings, photographs, newspaper articles, flipbooks), elements that make hybrid narratives. Such artifacts are arranged inorder to compose an album in the novelMinha mãe morrendo e o menino mentidoand an obituary inMeu 7º dia: uma novella rébus. From a lied childhood to adesecrated funeral, Valêncio Xavier lights and reworks childhood memories anddesigns and mocks the inevitable future. Thus, this study aims to discussstructural and thematic attributes of the works of this Brazilian author to reflecton these narrative albums that create the past and the future.

André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso –––––––––––– 277 estudos de literatura brasileira contemporânea , n. 4 6 , p. 2 57 - 277 , j ul ./ dez . 2015 . TOURNEUR, Jacques (1947). Fuga ao passado . Título original: Out of the past . Produção: Warren Duff e Robert Sparks. Roteiro: Geoffrey Homes. E lenco: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas e outros. Estados Unidos: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ULMER, Edgar G. (1945). A curva do destino Título original: Detour . Produção: Leon Fromkess e Martin Mooney. Roteiro: Martin Goldsmith. Elenco: Tom Neal, Ann Savage e outros. Estados Unidos: Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). Recebido em maio de 2014. Aprovado em maio de 2015. resumo/abstract A sombra do mundo: excesso e aprisionamento em Diomedes: a trilogia do acidente , de Lourenço Mutarelli André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso O objetivo deste artigo é examinar a maneira como a estética dos filmes noir é apropriada por Lourenço Mutarelli em sua narrativa em quadrinhos Diomedes: a trilogia do acidente . Dividida entre a tentativa de representar o real e u m forte impulso de estilização, essa estética age como elemento estruturador da narrativa, criando um mundo caracterizado pelo excesso e a degradação, do qual aparentemente não há saída. Palavras - chave : f ilme noir , literatura brasileira contemporânea, história em quadrinhos, Lourenço Mutarelli. The shadow of the world: excess and imprisonment in Diomedes: a trilogia do acidente , by Lourenço Mutarelli André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso

The aim of this paper is to examine the way the aesthetics of film noir is appropriated by Lourenço Mutarelli in his graphic novel Diomedes: a trilogia do acidente . Torn between an attempt to represent the real and a strong impulse towards stylization, this aesthetics acts as a structuring element of the narrative, creating a world characterized by excess and degradation, from which apparently there is no way out.

This paper draws on the studies undertaken in the area of cultural studies, inparticular,Homi Bhabha‟s formulations, to propose an analysis of the BraziliannovelTerra Papagalli(by José Roberto Torero and Marcus Aurelius Pimenta),showing how the narrative dismounts historical reality, to explore other angles; and shifts the focus to the imaginary construction that involves revisiting theDiscoveries. Thus, contrary to expectations, revealing paradoxes such as thosewhich tend to increase civic and commemorative urges that liveantagonistically, with anti-establishment thoughts that questionthe internalconnections of these developments, articulating, through mimetic resources,other voices and their critic repetitions of contested models and references.

El objetivo principal de este trabajo es, a partir de una perspectiva de sociología de la literatura y de la cultura, entender cuál es el papel, en la actualidad, de los agentes literarios como intermediarios culturales en relación a la circulación de obras y autores/as y a la producción literaria, con foco específico en el caso del sistema literario brasileño. Taking the sociology of literature and culture as a starting point, the main aim of this paper is to understand the current role of literary agents as cultural intermediaries in relation to the flow of authors, literary works and literary production, with special emphasis on the Brazilian literary system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cultural Industry has been dedicating space to the narratives of the “self ", whether in TV shows, periodical columns, TV series or websites. The book market is no exception. Works such as biographies and the so-called autofictions have increasingly gained prominence among new releases. From an analysis of the novel Divórcio by brazilian author Ricardo Lísias, which uses it to weave a critique of journalism, this article aims to build a brief discussion about the concept of autofiction and to construe its presence in the contemporary Brazilian literature scene. This study is the result of a theoretical research in the field of Communication Studies and uses content analysis as well as literary analysis to help elucidate the reasons why these so-called personal narratives have been prominent in today's cultural production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature, as a political act, places itself as a space for the construction of the identity of groups inserted in a particular social context. In the Brazilian literary contemporaneity there is a growing movement in favor of the construction of spaces of multiple voices, which are sociopolitical and culturally marginalized. Carolina Maria de Jesus, black woman, slum dweller and with only two years of study, is such an example. From the analysis of the novel Pedaços da fome, published in 1963, it becomes possible to observe the glimpse of the marginal to the non-marginal, expressed, above all in the configuration and relation of Carolina with her characters Maria Clara Fagundes and Paulo Lemes. The choice of the novel genre, as well as its textual options, which also do not occur randomly, there is intrinsic to the textual weaving to the pedagogical project, which the writer will put into practice. They are discussions through the theoretical basis as Bastos (2006), Candido (2004), Robert (2008), among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the novel A vez de morrer, by Simone Campos, a reflection is made on the difficult equation of "living together", which is much closer to the idiorrhythmic fantasy proposed by Roland Barthes -- without, however, abiding by it entirely -- than to Zygmunt Bauman's conceptions, in an attempt to think about what questions contemporary Brazilian literature has addressed to the discursive frameworks that point to the constitution of communities that are growingly more inclined to forming relationships among equals. In confronting different communities, Campos enables a discussion about urgent issues such as sexuality and religion in times of a capitalístico-mediáticos", en la expresión de Jacques Derrida. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The understanding that the ability to bring knowledge about the past is not unique to the historiographical texts provided the literature with a new statute, which assures epistemological relevance to retell the past. In this article we analyze different ways in which literary discourse configures historical time. First, the potential of literature to critically review the traumas of the past seeks to show how it is necessary for more writers to dwell on terrible situations such as slavery and dictatorship so that these traumas are cleared up. In the second part, different versions of relating literature to history are proposed, through a reading of the novels by the bias of the history of mentalities, of the history of public facts, but also by making the writer a fictional character. In the last part, the fictional configuration of the past that is almost present allows one to perceive some constants that are related to contemporaneity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O inverno e depois, a novel written by Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, exposes an articulated reflection on classical music and the artist's life, as well as the challenges of the musicians to translate, through their art, the feelings that words do not express itself. In this way, we intend to make a reading of the novel from the theoretical aspects of word and music studies, revealing the influences of the Concerto for violoncello and Orchestra, by Antonín Dvorák - key factor for the novel -, in the Assis Brasil's narrative, both in the structural plane and in the plane of its content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, the intention is to map the plurality of crime writing —that is detective, mystery or crime fiction— which has appeared in Brazil over the last quarter of a century. Working from reflections which have already been published as well as specific reading choices, a “biased” corpus of reference has been established. It incorporates the spectrum of this unique grisaille fiction, with regard to the conventional parameters of the genre, in both the more orthodox works and the more unorthodox works, favouring those that examine the issues of human social concerns.

This article aims to analyze the work Continental Solitude, by the contemporary writer João Gilberto Noll, and characterize its character-narrator: João Bastos. Considering that he is coated with a garment with philosophical existentialist literary traits. This requires a search in the philosophy of Sartre and Nietzsche of elements that give foundation to the hypothesis put here. So we proceeded to critical analysis from the most intimate features, the psychological aspects, to the visible elements that are actually on display, as his moral action. We identified a search by the character for something that might fulfill himself, taking him away from his existential dilemma and fulfilling him before time runs out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the fictional production of Evandro Affonso Ferreira, pointing out, for this purpose, the themes of death and melancholy, which are treated in his novels from the subjectivation of everyday experiences. As theoretical basis, this article uses the relationships between literature and psychoanalysis, highlighting the analysis of his novel O mendigo que sabia de cor os adágios de Erasmo de Rotterdam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]