Narrating global crises: ecocritical perspectives in contemporary African novel

• Grant number: 23/07202-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: September 01, 2023
• End date: August 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Elena Brugioni
• Grantee: Marta Maria Banasiak
• Supervisor: Ana Mafalda de Morais Leite
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 20/03902-9 - From the (semi-)periphery one can see the world: African literature in the context of world-literature, BP.PD

Abstract

The project aims to help developing the main research project through the collection and analysis of bibliographic material, as well as meetings with teachers and researchers and conducting interviews. The proposed activities prove to be necessary for deepening the research axis that intends to analyze how African narratives present, record and incorporate reflections related to the effects of capitalist expansion directly linked to global crises - environmental and human, these being, intimately connected. The corpus of the project covers works by four writers: João Paulo Borges Coelho, Ondjaki, Nuruddin Farah, J.M. Coetzze. In this way, it will be possible to rethink the role of African literature in the global space and reverse the way in which its relationship with the place of origin is understood, pointing to other declensions of African literary texts that can be taken as ways of commenting on the world from the perspective of of Africa as a point of reference and enunciation. (AU)