Brazil Initiative Events

Please join us on Thursday, September 26 from 4:00-5:30 in the Conference Room of Meiklejohn House (159 George St.) for a talk by Lúcia Sá (University of Manchester), What the Waters and the Stones Say: Listening to the World in Brazilian Indigenous Literature and Art.

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION

In line with other recent Indigenous cultural production from Brazil. which emphasizes the importance on non-human subjects for the understanding of collectivity and ancestral belonging, this paper will focus on the role of rivers and stones in written and visual works by Ezequiel Vitor Tuxá and Gustavo Caboco.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Lúcia Sá is from São Paulo. She is professor of Brazilian Studies at University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Rainforest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Cultures (2004, Minnesota University Press), Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo (Routledge, 2007), and many articles on Brazilian and Latin American literature, cinema, and visual arts. She was principal researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Network “Racism and anti-racism in Brazil: the case of Indigenous peoples,” and led the Brazil strand of the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Brazil: the case of Indigenous Peoples, also funded by the AHRC.