graduate at Ciencias Sociais from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2001), master's at Luso-Brazilian Studies from University Of California, Berkeley (2004) and ph.d. at Literatura Latino-Americana from University Of California, Berkeley (2008). Has experience in Language, focusing on Language (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Because the anthropophagic paradigm, the Brazilian intellectuals frequently conceive Brazilian Culture as a transforming force of the European cultural models. Those intellectuals hardly theorize about the insertion of Brazilian culture in other countries, especially those from the South. In this project we describe how the presence of Brazilian culture helped Lusophone African countries …
The project seeks to investigate the overarching concept of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's historiographical and critical writings - that of formation - from 1936, when the author published Raízes do Brasil, through 1958, when he became chair of History of Brazilian Civilization at the University of São Paulo. Sérgio Buarque's understanding of the formation of Brazilian culture springs from …
This project, we intend to show, through the analyses of two 1930s novels (Calunga by Jorge de Lima and Maleita by Lucio Cardoso) that the social critique commonly ascribed to the 1930 social novel needs to be more fully and detailed reassessed, once such critique does not solely present a full-blown denounce of the archaic social structures kept by local elites, but it also contains an a…
The present project intends to study the way Graciliano Ramos, by means of his fiction and other literary texts, interferes in the national debate about education. We will examine the progressivist premises of his idea of pedagogy, in dialogue with the Escola Nova´s ideals of promoting education as an inducer of citizen action, and at the same time, we will study the hierarchisation and s…
This research project consists of a study of the critical reception of Raízes do Brasil by Antonio Candido and Jessé Souza. It aims to investigate how despite being associated with a generically left political spectrum both critics deeply differ in their opinions. Such readings answer the discursive struggles that characterized two different historical contexts: on the one hand, after the…
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This Research Project is a proposal for an Internship Abroad Research Program (BEPE-IC). It aims to expand and update the knowledge of the theoretical interface between Postcolonial studies and World-Literature. The intersection between these two fields of study has been thoroughly examined by the Warwick Research Collective (WREC), at the Department of English and Comparative Literary St…
This research critically investigates the notions of tradition and formation in Brazilian literature through examining representations of the sertão during the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on Vidas Secas by Graciliano Ramos. We intend to show how a return to Antonio Candido's idea of a formed tradition, coined in the 1950s, questions the period's criticism, as well as points to the m…
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