Fronteiraz 31

Literature, social/ political tensions and education for ethnic-racial relations

 

Guest editors:

Profa. Dr. Ana Lúcia Souza [UFBA (BA) – Instituto de Letras]
Prof. Dr. Sueli da Silva Saraiva [UNILAB (CE) – Instituto de Linguagens e Literatura]
Prof. Dr. Maurício Silva [PUC SP] – Programa Pós-Graduados em Literatura e Crítica Literária]

 

For the last decades, literary production has witnessed extensive processes of tensioning and challenging through which there have been attempts to put under suspicion concepts and phenomena somewhat consolidated by literary theory, criticism and historiography. Such processes end up resulting in the manifestation of literary voices that have established themselves from the differences, in a discourse which, by standing antagonic to the “center”, either disrupts – in the case of Brazil – the conciliation  and totalizing and unifying linearity of the idea of a nation, as Paulo Patrocínio (2013) shows, or challenges the contrast/synthesis perspective that has characterized the path of the Brazilian literary production, according to as Edmilson Pereira (2022). Thus, tensioning the canon and confronting the history of literature, deconstructing theory and interrogating criticism, crossing out concepts and promoting a disruption of frontiers, besides trying to build new epistemes, are all actions that in the realm of literature have brought about countless and promising results, especially for a country that means to be diverse and plural. Evidently, such occurrences arise in a context of resistance and confrontation between ethnic tensions and assertions of identity which mark social relations all over the world, with special resonance in Latin America and Brazil. By thinking about such context, we propose a dossier which, by considering processes of literary creation framed in contexts of crisis and violence (GUINZBURG, 2012), may discuss the relations among literature, social tensions and policies of contemporaneity and education for ethnic-racial relations, in a dialogue embracing such varied and controversial approaches as the production of African literature in Portuguese and its impact/reception in Brazil, the constitution of a black literature (EVARISTO, 2009), and an African-Brazilian/Black-Brazilian literature (CUTI, 2014), the use of literature as a device directed to pedagogical anti-racist  practices or the production of counter-hegemonic theories that substantiate a cross-border literary production. This proposal welcomes papers addressing a wide range of themes, concepts and literary analyses, such as Brazilian literature of black authorship; a dialogue between Brazilian literature and African lusophone literatures; new dinamics of literary production, reception and diffusion in current times; historically marginalized literary systems (peripheral literature, indigenous literature, LGBTQIA+ literature etc), and their relations with discriminatory processes and contexts; children’s and young adults literary production – whether directly or indirectly connected to the promotion of ethical-racial relations; literature of ethnic and/or gender minorities; black voices and feminine voices (SOUZA, 2017) in the Brazilian literary production; an interface between literature and education for ethnic-racial relations; disruptive critical and theoretical constructs and many other approaches which, directly or indirectly, expatiate on the proposal outlined in the intended dossier.

 

Deadline for submission of articles: July 10, 2023.

 

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