LITERATURA E CULTURA NA AMÉRICA LATINA

O escritor questiona a possível inserção da literatura brasileira no conjunto da cultura da América Latina e, diante disso, faz um questionamento necessário: O que é América Latina? E, caso definido um conceito, qual a posição do Brasil no contexto desta América Latina? Somente depois seria possível tentar compreender o lugar da produção brasileira no âmbito da literatura latino-americana. O primeiro problema que se coloca, no entanto, é em que fundamentar a escolha. Tomando inicialmente o argumento linguístico, o autor analisa que a ideia de que a América Latina é a parte do continente americano unida pelas línguas originadas do latim deixa de fora uma porção considerável do território.

A Literatura Juvenil e o Fenômeno Crossover: Uma Leitura de Limite Branco, de Caio Fernando Abreu

O presente estudo tem como principal objetivo verificar como o fenômeno da literatura crossover evidencia-se em Limite Branco, primeiro romance de Caio Fernando Abreu. Intenta-se demonstrar como por meio das temáticas fraturantes que veicula, bem como pelo emprego de estratégias narrativas sofisticadas, a obra ultrapassa o endereçamento a um público específico, desafiando o leitor de diferentes faixas etárias e experiências de vida e de leitura.

Histórias de Gatos Livres na Literatura Infantil de Sylvia Orthof

Sylvia Orthof (1932-1997) consagrou-se como uma das mais importantes escritoras da literatura infantil brasileira. Entre suas temáticas recorrentes, os animais não humanos figuram em profusão, assim sendo, este estudo objetiva verificar a destacada presença dos gatos na obra da autora arrolada, e mais especificamente os bichanos não domésticos vivenciando momentos de especial cumplicidade com outros seres não humanos. Para tanto, realiza a análise dos seguintes textos zooliterários - o conto de animais História engatada e da fábula poética Gato pra cá, rato pra lá. As formulações críticas e teóricas, nomeadamente, de Jacques Derrida (2011) e (2003), Nelly Novaes Coelho (1991) e Fanny Abramovich (1999) fundamentam a leitura.

História da Literatura Infanto-Juvenil e a Influência Digital: da Criação da Infância ao Desenvolvimento do Livro Interativo

 A literatura infanto-juvenil surgiu com a criação da ideia de infância. Hoje, ela se apresenta a partir de adaptações de obras literárias em livros interativos fazendo-se valer de ferramentas e suportes tecnológicos atuais. Neste artigo, propomos uma retomada à história da literatura infanto-juvenil – a partir de autores como Zilberman (1985;1987) e Ariés (1985) –  e uma análise de seu diálogo contemporâneo com as novas mídias digitais – a partir de autores como Bolter & Grusin (2000). Para tanto, discorreremos desde a criação da infância até a criação do livro interativo, perpassando a questão da literatura como mídia e seu dialogo intermidiático com novas tecnologias.

ORIENTALIZATION AND SYNTHESIS IN THE HELENA KOLODY AND ALICE RUIZ S’S LYRIC

RESUMO: A lírica de Helena Kolody e Alice Ruiz S contribuem para propor (re)significações à obra kolodyana no contexto da Literatura Brasileira. Os temas recorrentes na lírica de Kolody e Ruiz S são o tempo, a solidão, a memória, a efemeridade e permanência, a viagem, entre outros. Com vários livros publicados, antologias e obras completas, Helena Kolody e Alice Ruiz S realizam um fazer poético enquanto busca da síntese, projetada nas formas escolhidas e no enxugamento dos textos. Os poemas sintéticos, tais como os dísticos, tercetos, quadras, epigramas, tankas e haicais (poesia de origem japonesa), são formas poéticas escolhidas pelas poetas. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Poesia; Síntese; Helena Kolody; Alice Ruiz S; “tankas e haicais” (Poesia Japonesa).  http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1981-4755.20160007  

FRANCISCO J. C. DANTAS AND THE DRAMATIC CONDITION OF THE NORTHEASTERN PEOPLE

Francisco J. C. Dantas, a novelist from Sergipe in Brazil, is seen as the responsible for resurrecting the regionalism in the Brazilian literary scenery. His novels glimpse narrators who see the world always by the bias of bitterness and hopelessness. It is evident in the characters the pessimism and disenchantment. This work aims to present the dramatic condition of the northeastern people alive in Francisco J. C. Dantas. Therefore, it will be analyzed the narrators of both author's first novels: Coivara da Memória and Os Desvalidos.

Language and Labour Centrality in Quarto de Despejo

Language is essential to mankind and it is a means to interact with nature. Another important element in the discursive constitution of the subject is labour; through it men transform themselves and the surrounding society and this is one of the most ontologically salient features of it. In this sense, this article analysis the literary representation of language and labor world in Quarto de despejo, by Carolina Maria de Jesus. As a theoretical framework to discuss concepts of labour it is adopted Marx (1996); Engels (1990) and Lukács (2004) whose works investigate that universe.  Bakhtin/Volochínov (1986), to reflect on language; Bosi (2002), to analyze literature as a field of resistance and Candido (1976), to consider the interactions between text and context. As a result of this investigation, it was concluded that language, represented by the work of a writer, has a central role in the life of Carolina, because it is through language that the author develops a social critique of the oppressive scenario in which she lives, transcending it in a certain measure. Carolina's work, garbage collector, is not an element of satisfaction in her life, but a meaningless activity and worthless human. However it is through the precarious work universe that language constitutes itself, unfolding as a hybrid between the material world and literary expedients.

The (Disen) Chant (ment) of the Bird: Memory and Testimony in Cacaso´s verses

The purpose of this text is to reflect on some of Antônio Carlos Ferreira de Brito (Cacaso)´s verses aiming to demonstrate not only their oscillations, but also how they are fundamentally related to the moment of production. The excess of reality - conceived as trauma – it is hard to be assimilated and it is revealed in some poems. Wounded-poems that testify about the impossibility of saying at the same time they are the evidence of the necessity of telling. Telling to, cathartically, expel the pain and release the traumatic memory. Resistance to remembering and facing the pain cross this poetic path and suggest how they both are almost irreconcilable. Some concepts like trauma, memory and testimony will be elucidated.        

From Rhythm to Topic: Horacian themes in a crepuscular poem by Manuel Bandeira

This paper consists of an analysis of the poem “Chama e fumo”, from As Cinzas das Horas, first book by Manuel Bandeira, regarding specially formal aspects and horacian themes within it. Moreover, it is intended to discuss how the modernist poet interweaves elements related both to classic and end of century symbolist tradition, considering some of the main ancient poetry themes, as theorized by Francisco Achcar in his book Lírica e Lugar-comum - Alguns Temas de Horário e sua presença em português, such as the topic of transience and its variations: carpe diem and the invitation to love.

PATATIVA DO ASSARÉ: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL LOOK ABOUT THE SPACE IN HIS POETHIC

This article approaches the image of the house and its possible nuances of habitation by Bachelard phenomenology, figured in Patativa do Assaré’s poetry, a poet from Ceara who brings in his literary writing the popular backcountry culture. Stresses the importance of the sertão as a dream place for the lyrical subject represented in the poems and the security that the space offers to the voices that enunciate. In this space, the traumas are revived and reinterpreted from a movement of atmospheric production of meaning, which means that the locus enunciated by the memory raises, itself and from itself, a framed effect sense of the subject who comforts and enables the dream.

Black women's writing: contributions to the literary, feminist and gender studies.

This work is a reflection on black women’s writing, which has been and yet, sometimes, is marginalized and reduced to invisibly in our literary field due to several factors . Therefore, it becomes important to give visibility to this writing so as to discuss the marks of feminism, race and gender that it brings, showing its contributions for the construction of a new and empowered discourse on black women, which represents a differential for literary discourse and affects the canon, since it t promotes the construction of a new perspective, a differentiated representation of black women, emphasizing their forms of struggle and resistance, front the exclusionary sociocultural systems.  In order to do that, I bring up some theoretical voices such as that, of Guacira Lopes Louro (1997); Abdias do Nascimento (2000); Tatau Godinho (2008), among others that deal with the theme, as well as texts written by  black women writers such as Alzira Rufino, Esmeralda Ribeiro e Cristiane Sobral to argue and think about a literature that deals with black women autonomy,  and challenges the dominant power systems, a literature that gives emphasis to women and ethnic-racial issues from perspective of the black person herself , since this project was relegated to oblivion for too long or portrayed in as stereotyped way by other voices, other discourses guided by a masculine and eurocentric bias. In this way, we hope to show how it is relevant to black women's literature, because makes us reflect and face the mechanisms of oppression, subalternization against women, especially black women, and race and gender prejudice, and its effects, that still can be seen daily in different social and cultural contexts.  

GODOFREDO RANGEL AND AUTRAN DOURADO: THE ARTIST AND APPRENTICE

The name Godofredo Rangel has been fixed itself in the history of Brazilian literature mainly as Monteiro Lobato's eternal friend and correspondent. Nevertheless, his memory is revered by writers of the same strain as Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Autran Dourado. The latter, above all, in more than one occasion, declared having had in Rangel a master in writing, whose guidance had been fundamental to the development of his literary vocation. In the novel Um artista aprendiz (n.t.: An apprentice artist), from 1989, Dourado narrates the trajectory of a novice writer, whose  encounter with the literary personality of Godofredo Rangel, fictionalized by the author in the character of Sílvio sousa, is also decisive. This study consists of the comparison between the testimony of Autran Dourado about Godofredo Rangel and the fictional matter of the novel, searching in them the elements to understand what Dourado and others considered as being a work of mastery in the literary art.

Poetry and transcendence in the A Túnica Inconsútil, of Jorge de Lima

We intend to study this text as Jorge de Lima establishes the relationship between two distinct activities, poetry and religion, for the elaboration of the A Túnica Inconsútil. In our perspective, the effective union of these two perspectives will be accomplished through the technique of surrealist collage, which makes use of the combination of disparate elements, together with the exploitation of classic tops of literature, such as the trip and the island. Join this practice the metaphysical poet's ideological project, which aims to establish the "poetry in Christ".

Irreverent idealism: the chronicles of Oswald de Andrade and Nelson Rodrigues

This paper aims to confront the chronicles "Telefonema" (1944-54) by Oswald de Andrade and "Confissões" (1967-74) by Nelson Rodrigues and examine the unique manner how they fit in the tradition of the genre in Brazil. This is about checking points of approximation and distancing in the ways by each one of the authors uses idealism and irreverence as a critical style, analyzing their strifes with artists and intellectuals of their times. The aim is to show that both, despite their ideological incompatibilities, supported similar conceptions of national authenticity and stood out as untimely writers in the brazilian chronicle's history.

Female authorship Literature: Women in the history and in the memory

The purpose of this study is to analyze the process of Brazilian women’s search for equality, concerning cultural and social areas over five centuries. Oppression, submission and silence used to be common words for women during this period in the history. The extreme patriarchal system and the sexism in different areas of society prevented the female rights from expressing their opinions. This study process involved the research on significant articles, books and magazines related to gender equalities. The present achievements of women in the country are due to the work of feminist movements supported in Cultural Studies and Gender Theories that led women to represent an equal role in the society. As a result, women in the twentieth century got rid of the sexist oppression and besides producing remarkable writings, they improved their identities revealing themselves as skilful people able to contribute to the literary canon as well as diligent professional in education, politics and different areas of society in the postwar period.