I have an operational addiction: reading newspapers while holding a pair of scissors in my hand in order to cut out anything relevant for future works. Well, then. For the last 4 years, my folder of clippings has been increasing and becoming almost monothematic. Funk taken over FM radios stations and middle-class parties. Cobertores (Blankets), [...]

Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
I will examine emerging young poetry on the Brazilian cultural and political scene at two specific moments, both identified as moments of collapse, or at least decline, in the freedom and quality of artistic production. This is the case of marginal poetry –produced in the 1970’s [...]

Revista Brazil Brasil – edição de 1985
Brazil is the 5th biggest country in the world, the most highly industrialized country in South America, it has a huge foreign debt (but is trying not to pay it), and its territory incorporates 60% of the Amazonia region ( which means that the world depends on us to [...]

I have divided the presentation of my concerns into three parts:
1. cultural studies’ American heritage;
2. some notes on gender studies and black studies in Brazil; and
3. problems involved in university-based cultural studies.
1. The American Heritage. In 1982, just after the first direct gubernatorial elections since the 1964 military coup, I had the opportunity to work [...]

Last Century, was not by chance called the Women’s Century. We could say that the 20th Century was indeed an epical saga about identity & otherness not lacking none of a saga’s musts such as holocausts, independence wars and impressive diasporas.
Recalling one of the 60’s breathtaking achievements, the “discovery of the Natives” & its long [...]

Falar sobre os estudos de gênero ou sobre qualquer assunto related to the utopia do dissenso, da convivência das diferenças ou da esperança no advento de uma democracia radical para lembrar, com certa saudade, a proposta de Laclau, pode sound, nestes dias pós 11 de setembro, como uma idéia desafinada ou, digamos, “lightly alienated”.
Para nós, [...]

I cannot hide some pride & delight in beginning this talk with some flattering figures. First of all, my major field of research is literature and communications, and I’m not used – like my colleagues who are sociologists or economists – to look at figures. Second, because they really show the evidence of fast and [...]

This brief sketch has to do with a phenomenon that may come to have important developments in a country like Brazil with large gaps between social classes and a perverse persistence of economic inequality. I refer to the new cultural developments that come from the periphery and are beginning to enter into dialog and to [...]

To speak about any topic related to the utopia of dissension, about the conviviality of differences or about the hope for the advent of a radical democracy, may sounds, in these post-September 11th days, as an out of tune or even “slightly alienated” idea.
In regard to academic concerns & approaches, the present moment is both [...]

El estudio de la nueva poesía tiene para mí mucho encanto pero también algo de conveniencia, algo de beneficio personal. Explico mejor esta afirmación un tanto insólita. Ciertamente, por la propia naturaleza casi mágica de la poesía, son infinitas las formas de definir y abordar el fenómeno complejo de la producción poética. En mi caso, [...]