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Post-Doctoral Programme Seminar This seminar aims to share reflections produced in the course of the post-doctoral research project ongoing at CES, which main aim is to approach interactive processes between Brazilian Cordel and Portuguese Cordel. The paper seeks to emphasize, in this moment of traineeship conclusion, new features that were introduced following the productive debate established whilst the first project presentation seminar. Therefore, the discussion of issues related to the ambiguity in the dealing of this production is central, be it in Brazil or in Portugal, conferring it , on one hand, that, through the commitment of “high culture”, a certain prestige, through its acknowledgment as cultural product, integrative of national traditions; on the other hand, in face of the dominant principals of that same class, whose logic derives from the “monoculture of knowledge and rigour of knowledge” (SOUSA SANTOS), cordel literature continues to be submitted to reductive appreciations based on criterions of value alien to their writing, rendering forms of non-existence with occultation and discredit effects.
Maria Isaura Rodrigues Pinto is a post-doctoral student at the Centre for social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, under supervision of Professor Graça Capinha. Holds a doctoral degree in Compared Literature at the Federal Fluminense University. Is presently associate professor at the Department of Arts and Humanities, School of Teacher Education of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses on the scope of compared cultural studies. |