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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Helder Garmes is graduated in Linguistics and Literature from the State University of Campinas (1983, 1985), he has a master's degree in Theory and Literary History from the same university (1993) and a PhD in Comparative Studies of Literatures in Portuguese from the University of São Paulo (1999). He have completed postdoctoral internships at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2005), the College of Humanities at Ohio State University (2009, CNPq) and the University of Leeds (2016) the Universidade do Porto (2023), all of them sponsored by CAPES scholarship. He is currently a full professor at the University of São Paulo, working especially in the areas of Portuguese literature, comparative studies and history of literature. He coordinates two research groups: one focused on the work of Eça de Queirós; another focused on literature in Portuguese from Goa and other former Portuguese colonies in Asia. Since 2003, alongside Daiane Cristina Pereira, he has coordinated the Eça Group, registered with the CNPq. From 2015 to 2020, he coordinated the project Thinking Goa: A Peculiar Library in Portuguese, financed by FAPESP, which gave rise to the Thinking Goa Study Group. He is a member of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE) based at CHAM-Center de Humanidades of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is the author of the book Romantismo Paulista (2006), organizer of the volume Oriente, Engenho e Arte (2004), co-organizer of Literatura Portuguesa: História, Memória e Perspectivas (2007), of three special issues of the journal Via Atlântica (2011, 2016 and 2019) on literature and culture in Goa, among several other articles, book chapters and book and dossier organizations. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project aims to rewrite the history of literature in Portuguese from Goa, a former Portuguese colony in India. It privileges, on the one hand, the relation of this body of writing with its host society's cultural, intellectual and artistic dynamics and, on the other hand, the connections that can be established today between this literature and its context and other related literatur…
This research focuses on the Goan author Cristóvão Aires, who lived from 1854 until 1930 and was part of the Indianist movement in Goa. The literary analysis proposed here will be made based on his short stories, published between 1890 and 1891. In addition to the aesthetic quality of his narratives, which mix resources from the romantic tradition with the realistic tradition, it is inten…
This project aims to analyze the work Hindu Civilization (1935) by Adeodato Barreto (1905-1937), in order to understand his literary and cultural conceptions and their relationship with the socio-political context of the time. Born in Goa, a former Portuguese colony in India, he lived in Portugal during the 1920s and 1930s, where he wrote most of his works. Hindu civilization is a book th…
This project focuses on cultural and literary production in Goa, around the time of the end of Portuguese colonialism in 1961. The Portuguese-language press in Goa in the twentieth century was quite profitable, mentioning the daily O Heraldo (1900-), which still is circulating under the title Heraldo and written in English, or periodicals in Margão like A Vida (1938-1966) or Diário da Noi…
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We intend to conduct a research in the Torre do Tombo National Archives of Portugal about the secret documentation of Salazarism in the "Portuguese India" boxes, in order to identify, analyze and compare the political vocabulary of the Salazarist regime on the liberation and the transitions of Goa to Indian Union between 1961 to 1967 comparing with the Goan resistance vocabulary. In Portu…
This research project to take place in Portuguese and Goan libraries and archives, It fits in the pursuit and deepening of the objectives defined in the project designed and approved by fits in the pursuit and deepening of the objectives defined in the project designed and approved by FAPESP (2017/13966-1), around the cultural impact provoked by the colonial Act of 1930 read through the G…
This project intends to carry out a research in several Portuguese (and also Macanese, as a complement) Libraries in order to identify Poems written in the Portuguese language, and their authors, in 10 newspapers published in Macau between 1863 and 1930. These documents can be found either in microfilm or in paper. The project also aims to gather bio-bibliographical elements regarding the…
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