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Associate Professor 3 at the University of São Paulo in the area of Portuguese-language African Literatures. He is a research productivity fellow (level 1D) from CNPq, receiving successive support since 2001. He is a researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon, and a collaborator at the Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa at the University of Porto. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon (2013; 2019-2020; 2021-2022) and at the University of Macau (2015-2016). He has a degree in Literature (1989) and a specialization in Literary Theory (1989) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, a master's degree (1993) and a doctorate (1997) in Literature, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He completed a post-doctoral internship at the Faculty of Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2002-2003) and at the Center for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon (2012-2013). He took the post-doctoral exam, in the area of Portuguese-language African Literatures, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP (2012). He was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Letters at the Fluminense Federal University, having worked in the areas of Portuguese Literature and Portuguese-speaking African Literatures (1994-2007). With other researchers, he founded the Brazilian Association of Homoculture Studies (ABEH) in June 2001. He has published books, articles in specialized magazines and book chapters, in Brazil and abroad. He has experience in the area of Literature, with an emphasis on African Literatures of the Portuguese Language and Portuguese Literature, mainly with the following themes: Comparative Studies of Literatures of the Portuguese Language, Post-colonial Studies, Cultural Studies and Queer Studies. |
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2020 - 2023 The uncomfortable memory of African literary systems: Portuguese Colonial Literature in the construction of the Empire Description: Detailed study of literary works that constitute the so-called Portuguese Colonial Literature of the century. XX, with emphasis on those that were awarded by the Colonial Literature Competitions (1926-1951) and the Overseas Literature Competitions (1954-1971), and which are not, broadly speaking, recognized as an integral part of the literary systems of African countries with Portuguese as their official language? although with exceptions that will constitute the core of the research's problematizations. This study also includes works published after the independence of the Portuguese colonies in Africa, but which are understood to be constructed under the sign of coloniality, participating in an aesthetic of subalternization, in counterpoint with the aesthetic ideology of nationalism and cultural affirmation. In effect, the historical and ambiguous position of these works invites, almost half a century after the political independence of these countries, a more accurate evaluation, which problematizes them based on the meanings that were perceived by the members of the competition juries, by the editors, by the critics and by the censors, if applicable, in counterpoint to the nationalist meaning that led them to be excluded by the national literatures of Afica. It is hoped that from the investigation a less ideologically schematic look at the literary histories, still to be established, of these countries will emerge. |