| Grant number: | 20/07836-0 |
| Support type: | Regular Research Grants |
| Duration: | April 01, 2021 - March 31, 2023 |
| Field of knowledge: | Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature |
| Principal researcher: | Elena Brugioni |
| Grantee: | Elena Brugioni |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil |
| Assoc. researchers: | Alfredo Cesar Barbosa de Melo ; Fernanda Bianca Gonçalves Gallo ; Gabriela Beduschi Zanfelice ; Marta Maria Banasiak |
Abstract
The project is a research proposal situated in the fields of African literary studies and postcolonial literary theory, to be addressed as two fields characterized by a significant proximity and in growing affirmation within Brazilian and global academic and critical contexts. Proposing a mapping of critical paradigms produced within the field of postcolonial studies, with particular focus on the recent developments that characterize the debate on world-literature, the Project analyses a corpus of established contemporary African writers, with the aim to consolidate a new theoretical category that corresponds to the notion of (semi-)peripheral African novel. The main hypothesis is to tackle this new theoretical category as a paradigmatic literary form in order to set the basis of a new theoretical approach and also for the establishment of a possibly original field of study identified as Comparative African Literatures. (AU)