XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC

XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC

Resumo:1100-1

Oral (Tema Livre)

1100-1	Brazilian utopianisms: a cultural survey in focus
Autores:	Ildney Cavalcanti (UFAL - Universidade Federal de Alagoas) ; Alfredo Cordiviola (UFAL - Universidade Federal de AlagoasUFPE - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)

Resumo

This presentation aims to describe some initial results of the project entitled Utopismos brasileiros: um inventário cultural, being developed by members of the research group Literatura e Utopia (PPGLL,Ufal; CNPq) belonging to three different universities (Ufal, UFPE, and Unicamp), which focuses on Brazilian utopianisms and involves the stages of surveying, selecting, analising, and (re)editing the forms in which those utopianisms have been manifested. In the investigation of such cultural productions, emphasis is given to some formal and thematic recurrences which will be explored in our exposition. Due to the diversity of the literary and cultural expressions being studied by the group, the discussion will be centred on an understanding of the utopian phenomenon in its varied discursive configurations and will expose a fourfold view of the possible configurations of the utopian modes in literature. Our analytical perspectives will be illustrated by offering readings of Brazilian utopian texts. Such readings emphasize the convergences between utopian forms, contents and functions, according to the proposition defended by Levitas, as well as the possible dialogues with contemporary theories regarding cultural utopian practices – for instance, transgressive utopianism (SARGISSON, 1996); critical utopias and dystopias (MOYLAN, 1986, 2006; CAVALCANTI, 2003); dislocated utopias (AUGÉ, 2010); dialectical utopianism (HARVEY, 2000)

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