Elena Brugioni is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature (African literatures and Postcolonial theory) at the Department of Literary Theory of the University of Campinas UNICAMP, and Lecturer at the Graduate Program in Literary Theory and History of Unicamp. She graduated in Modern Literatures at the University of Bologna (MA, 2004) and has a Ph.D in African Literatures (2009) from the University of Minho. She is co-coordinator of the KALIBAN - research group in postcolonial studies and world-literature (CNPq) at Unicamp and Associate Researcher of CESA - Centre for African and Development Studies of ISEG, University of Lisbon. She publishes and develops research in the fields of Comparative Literatures, African Literatures, Indian Ocean Studies, Postcolonial Theory and World-Literature. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The project is a research proposal situated in the fields of African literary studies and postcolonial literary theory, to be addressed as two fields characterized by a significant proximity and in growing affirmation within Brazilian and global academic and critical contexts. Proposing a mapping of critical paradigms produced within the field of postcolonial studies, with particular focu…
The research project Indian Ocean Aesthetics. "Transnational Imaginative Geographies" in visual and written narratives from the African continent is situated in the fields of Comparative African Literatures, Postcolonial Theory and Indian Ocean Studies and aims at analysing different representations - literature, documentary photography and visual arts - from several contexts of the Afric…
Alfredo Bosi (2002) suggests the resistance literature sa mechanism to break any political strategy that prevents awareness and a large mass in society. In this sense, in the Guinean literature field, it is understood that the literary writing of that country takes place in a conscious and progressive way due to its questioning and subversive role in the face of post-colonial violence. Th…
Starting from the theoretical proposal of world-literature developed by Warwick Research Collective, the present project seeks to develop a transnational and translinguistic reflection on the narratives coming from the divergent spaces of the African continent, with the objective of rethinking the role of African literature in the global/planetary space. The comparative analysis will focu…
This project is situated in the fields of Indian Ocean Studies, World-Literature and Environmental Humanities and aims at building a comparative analysis between the works Índicos Indícios (2005a; 2005b) and Ponta Gea (2017) by Mozambican author João Paulo Borges Coelho. Facing the Indian Ocean as an alternative critical paradigm (Hofmeyr, 2007, 2012; Brugioni, 2015) and as a transnationa…
This Scientific Initiation project is inserted in the area of Feminist and Post-Colonial studies, and considers the issue of domesticity to be central, being both a spatial limitation and a power relationship that is strengthened as an instrument of colonial rule, according to Anne Mcclintock (2010). The reading hypothesis is that there are in Neighbours (Lília Momplé, 2012), Niketche: Um…
This research project is situated in the fields of Indian Ocean Studies, Postcolonial Theory, and World-Literature and aims at analyzing the two short stories books Índicos Indícios I - Setentrião and Índicos Indícios II - Meridião (2005) by Mozambican contemporary writer João Paulo Borges Coelho. The aim is to investigate to what degree the Indian Ocean, as transnational geography and …
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This Research Project for Internship Abroad (BEPE) consists in the realization of a period of research in libraries, museums and archives located at academic and cultural centers in the University of Lisbon, with the aim to collect, study and review qualitative data which will allow for a deeper understanding on the environmental issues relating to the Indian Ocean world in general and to…
Trying to answer the basic hypothesis of the main research - that the literary projects of Mozambican writers (and historians) João Paulo Borges Coelho and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa offer an extensive historical narrative unrelated to the script of liberation (Borges Coelho, 2019). It is important to demonstrate a data set that substantiates this hypothesis. In this sense, this research intern…
This Research Project constitutes a proposal for an Internship Abroad Research Program (BEPE-IC). It seeks for a deepened understanding on questions surrounding the World-Literature debate such as conceptualized by the Warwick Research Collective (WREC) at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies of the University of Warwick (UK). In order to develop a coherent articulat…
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