Luso-Brazilian Seminar: Insurgent Writings in Brazil

Drawing from critical theory, the seminar explores how past and present-day Brazilian predicaments shape cultural landscapes, with a focus on diverse peripheral artistic perspectives. As we challenge the idea of a single Brazilian history and identity and break open what literature is and does, we will engage the works of a new generation of Black, Indigenous, and women writers, who is recasting our sense of the colonial/anti-colonial, systemic racism, orality and storytelling, power and insurgency. Through multiple media, we will probe the creative force that is decolonizing the Brazilian arts and articulating alternative world-makings.