About

This event takes the form of a space for debate on the colonial legacy in Portuguese literature, a review of the ways racisms is entrenched in literary production, as well as the counter-narratives and resistance that afro-descendants have produced in the field of literature. It intends to be a contribution towards a discussion that has been marked, in Portugal, by the recent controversy surrounding the criticism of Eça de Queirós' Os Maias, the nomination of Fernando Pessoa as the patron of a CPLP programme and the debate on ethno-racial representativity in the arts (see the cases of the dubbing of the film Soul and the translation of Amanda Gorman's poem).

This talk counts on the important contributions of Gisela Casimiro (author and artist), Inocência Mata (CEC-FLUL), Liz Almeida (CEC-FLUL/U. Évora/IFBA), Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (CES-UC), Raquel Lima (CES-UC) and Vanusa Vera-Cruz Lima (UMass Dartmouth), and Cristina Roldão (CIES-Iscte and ESE-IPS) and Pedro Schacht Pereira (OSU) as moderators.

Registration is free of charge, but compulsory HERE (limited number of places)

Organisers: Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) in partnership with PhD in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory, Univ. of Massachusetts Darmouth, Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC-FLUL), Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC), Research Network Centre in Anthropology (CRIA) and the Higher School for Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (ESE-IPS).