22 articles in this issue
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Claire Williams
Since 2007, when it was announced that Brazil would host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, the country has become the focus of international attention. This was an excellent opportunity to counter stereotypes and present a more authentic vers... see more
Álex Alonso Nogueira
This article reviews the editorial history of Silvio Santiago’s novel O silencio redimido, released in 1976, but first submitted to the Spanish censorship in 1964. After situating the author in Galician Literature in the early 1960s, the article examines ... see more
Jefferson Agostini Mello
The article discusses aspects of the contemporary Brazilian literary field, focusing on the most recent tendencies and positions of writers and critics. Arguably, substantial changes have occurred in the way writers relate to the public sphere as well in ... see more
Ánxela Lema París
This work takes as its starting point the collection of poems Carnia haikai (2012) by Elvira Riveiro Tobío as a site for the analysis of the representation of non-normative sexualities in the field of contemporary Galician poetry. Starting from the hetero... see more
Josep Ramon Garcia i Ibáñez
In Inter-Rail (1999), Abel Neves (1956) approaches April 25th, 1974 through two opposing generations: those who lived the transition from dictatorship to democracy; and their children, who view it from a distance and without any nostalgia. Neves was commi... see more
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
Cloves have been prized since Ancient times for their agreeable smell and therapeutic properties. With the publication of Colóquios dos Simples e Drogas he Cousas Mediçinais da Índia (Goa, 1563), Garcia de Orta (c. 1500-1568) presented the first modern mo... see more
Antonio Maura
Jordi Cerdà Subirach
Manuel Arca Castro
Antia Marante Arias
Martín Veiga
Luciene Azevedo
This essay aims to trace the construction of the «signature» of Marcelo Mirisola, commenting on some aspects of his fictional repertoire and focusing on the hypothesis that the cynicism attached to the process of construction of this authorial identity is... see more
Ângela Maria Dias
Brazilian literature, when dedicated to recreating contemporary social fractures, has frequently chosen a minimalist perspective in order to counteract the representationalist lineage overly expressed in our tradition. Nowadays, there two writers operatin... see more
Rejane Pivetta de Oliveira,Tiago Pellizzaro
This paper discusses the phenomenon of the cultural gatherings that currently take place in the urban peripheries of Brazil’s larger cities, such as, for example, Sarau da Cooperifa, organized by Sérgio Vaz, and Sarau Suburbano, managed by Alessandro Buzo... see more
Lucía Tennina
Saraus play a central role in contemporary Brazilian literature. Originating in 2001, they are gatherings that take place in cafés of different neighbourhoods of peripheral São Paulo where people recite or read their own texts or the texts of others in fr... see more
M. Carmen Villarino Pardo
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