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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Itália
Elena Brugioni is Associate Professor in Comparative Literatures (African literatures and Postcolonial theory) at the Department of Literary Theory of the University of Campinas UNICAMP, and Lecturer at the Graduate Program in Literary Theory and History of Unicamp. She graduated in Modern Literatures at the University of Bologna (MA, 2004) and has a Ph.D in African Literatures (2009) from the University of Minho. She is co-coordinator of the KALIBAN - research centre in postcolonial studies and world literature (CNPq) at Unicamp and Associate Researcher of CESA - Centre for African and Development Studies of ISEG, University of Lisbon. She publishes and develops research in the fields of Comparative Literatures, African Literatures, Indian Ocean Studies, Postcolonial Theory and World-Literature. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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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 focu…
The research project Indian Ocean Aesthetics. "Transnational Imaginative Geographies" in visual and written narratives from the African continent is situated in the fields of Comparative African Literatures, Postcolonial Theory and Indian Ocean Studies and aims at analysing different representations - literature, documentary photography and visual arts - from several contexts of the Afric…
The project Dead people matter: Poetics and politics of restitution in the literatures of the African Indian Ocean is a research proposal located in the fields of Literary Theory and Visual Studies, Postcolonial Theory and Indian Ocean Studies (IOS) and aims to reflect on the emergence of what Georges Didi-Huberman defines as "critical image" or "dialectical image" (1997) in contemporary …
Beginning with the cultural matrix of the Indian Ocean as an "aesthetic and conceptual device" (BRUGIONI, 2021) for the study of African Literatures, the aim is to approach the interpretation of this ocean as an "ecocritical object" (FALCONI, 2022), in cultural, conceptual, and methodological terms. The main objective is to conduct a critical and comparative analysis of the poetry of Ana …
In this research, we will use the studies about the postcolonial literatures of female authorship in french language, specifically those from Algeria, to observe the construction of the multiple identities of the female characters in the Leïla Sebbar's collection of novels La jeune fille au balcon (1996), in comparison with Assia Djebar's novel Vaste est la prison (1995). Our goal is to u…
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This project is situated in the fields of Indian Ocean Studies, World-Literature and Environmental Humanities and aims at building a comparative analysis between the works Índicos Indícios (2005a; 2005b) and Ponta Gea (2017) by Mozambican author João Paulo Borges Coelho. Facing the Indian Ocean as an alternative critical paradigm (Hofmeyr, 2007, 2012; Brugioni, 2015) and as a transnationa…
Starting from the theoretical proposal of world-literature developed by Warwick Research Collective, the present project seeks to develop a transnational and translinguistic reflection on the narratives coming from the divergent spaces of the African continent, with the objective of rethinking the role of African literature in the global/planetary space. The comparative analysis will focu…
This Scientific Initiation project is inserted in the area of Feminist and Post-Colonial studies, and considers the issue of domesticity to be central, being both a spatial limitation and a power relationship that is strengthened as an instrument of colonial rule, according to Anne Mcclintock (2010). The reading hypothesis is that there are in Neighbours (Lília Momplé, 2012), Niketche: Um…
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This research project abroad (BEPE) consists of conducting a period of research in the libraries, museums and archives located at the university center of the University of Bayreuth, with the aim of collecting, studying and reviewing data that will allow a deeper understanding of Algeria's social and political history, on the Algerian feminist movements and especially on the critical fort…
The scientific rigor of a research is defined by the quality of the data collected and analyzed in the course of the investigation, which is why it is essential to establish a close relationship with the field and context of the investigated object as a way of clarifying doubts, collecting documents and gathering information in order to vunderstand the networks of meanings, symbolic syste…
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 effec…
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