Lifelong Barthesians: the intersecting paths of Susan Sontag, Beatriz Sarlo and Leyla Perrone-Moisés

• Grant number: 25/04408-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: May 24, 2025
• End date: August 11, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Claudia Consuelo Amigo Pino
• Grantee: Claudia Consuelo Amigo Pino
• Host Investigator: Claude Coste
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS), France

Abstract

The aim of this project is a two-and-a-half-month internship in Paris, at ITEM/CNRS, under the supervision of Claude Coste, to develop and disseminate bibliographical and documentary research on the relationship between critics Leyla Perrone-Moisés, Beatriz Sarlo and Susan Sontag and their great mentor, Roland Barthes. The bibliographical research will focus on theoretical studies on the circulation of ideas and texts, based on the works of Pierre Bourdieu, Gisèle Sapiro and Pascale Casanova; the documentary research will focus on Barthes' archive (deposited in the National Library of France) and his relations with his interlocutors on the American continent (based on his library, correspondence, travel notes, reading sheets). As well as carrying out the research, the internship includes participation in three events on the subject: in Leeds, Novi Sad and Seoul, which will be funded by resources already granted from other projects (FAPESP, CNPq, PROEX).