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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986772
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After several issues of the Luso-Brazilian Review devoted to thematic clusters, the current issue marks a return to a non-thematic collection of articles that I am confident will interest a broad readership across our field. We are delighted to open issue 62.2 with Lingchen Huang’s brilliant study “Between Subjectivity and Materiality: Affective Mechanism, Atmosphere, and Matter-Energy Dynamics in O Lustre by Clarice Lispector.” This article examines the novel O Lustre through Clarice Lispector’s sustained interest in the entanglement of subjectivity and materiality, focusing on how Virgínia’s formation as a subject emerges through affects, atmospheres, and her encounters with nonhuman agencies. Through close
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallEditorial Note2026-03-28text/htmlen-USEditorial Note2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®105022026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Between Subjectivity and Materiality: Affective Mechanism, Atmosphere, and Matter-Energy Dynamics in O Lustre by Clarice Lispector
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986773
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In O Lustre (1946), the young protagonist Virgínia enjoys making dolls from clay, a material that is “maleável, pastoso, frio” (Lispector 2019, 46). Since she can de-form and recreate the objects she makes into new figurines, there is no defined shape or meaning to her creation. The malleable clay figurines, formed through contact—an affective happening—embody passivity imbued with creative potential, evident in their capacity for self-organization and reconfiguration. The figurines can thus be seen as affective bodies constituting the Lispectorian universe, a space marked by constant shifts in resistance to definition, certainty and closure. Clarice Lispector thereby reveals her interest in the human subject’s
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallBetween Subjectivity and Materiality: Affective Mechanism, Atmosphere, and Matter-Energy Dynamics in O Lustre by Clarice Lispector2026-03-28text/htmlen-USBetween Subjectivity and Materiality: Affective Mechanism, Atmosphere, and Matter-Energy Dynamics in O Lustre by Clarice Lispector2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®722042026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Rethinking Concrete Poetry: Words, Images, and Anti-Authoritarian Politics in Brazil
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986774
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Popcretos are a heavily politicized subgenre of concrete poetry and art that emerged after the 1964 military coup. Brazilian poets and visual artists embedded these pop art and mass media inspired visuals with political messages. The production of popcretos was most vibrant from 1964 through the end of the decade and the poems were published in avant-garde journals like Invenção: Revista de arte de vanguarda and exhibited in art spaces like Galeria Atrium in São Paulo. The poems are visually striking and playful, often employing irony and parody to reinforce their messages. They include written labels with titles, explanations, language keys, and other information to guide the viewer.I analyze the relationship
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallRethinking Concrete Poetry: Words, Images, and Anti-Authoritarian Politics in Brazil2026-03-28text/htmlen-USRethinking Concrete Poetry: Words, Images, and Anti-Authoritarian Politics in Brazil2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®670152026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Renewing Afro-Brazilian History: Mobility and Memory-Making in Água de barrela by Eliana Alves Cruz
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986775
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The historical novel Água de barrela (2015), by Eliane Alves Cruz, portrays six generations of an Afro-Brazilian family. The book won the first Oliveira Silveira Prize, awarded by the Fundação Cultural Palmares.1 Copies of the publication were distributed and discussed in schools, cultural centers, and public organizations in Brazil’s major cities. In 2018, it was relaunched by a publishing house that specializes in Afro-Brazilian literature. The narrative is based on factual historical research, but largely on oral recollections, and the evocation of memory is aided by particular objects displayed in the final pages of the book. Besides its aspect of memorabilia, Água de barrela’s process of creation is unusual in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallRenewing Afro-Brazilian History: Mobility and Memory-Making in Água de barrela by Eliana Alves Cruz2026-03-28text/htmlen-USRenewing Afro-Brazilian History: Mobility and Memory-Making in Água de barrela by Eliana Alves Cruz2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®1061912026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Samba and the Poetic Fabric of the Work of Carolina Maria de Jesus
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986776
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In this article, I argue that focusing on the musical recordings of Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914–1977) allows us to better understand her artistic work and cultural legacy. To date, most published studies have been constrained to considering the edited version of her diaries published in 1960 as Quarto de despejo: Diário de uma favelada. Here, I consider de Jesus’s documentary work as a complex, multimedia art comprising her writing (including manuscripts published this decade or not yet published), her recordings, and her dressmaking. This shift in focus from her text as document toward the artistry of her text builds on cultural work in Brazil over the past decades that has drawn a more complex and multifaceted
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallSamba and the Poetic Fabric of the Work of Carolina Maria de Jesus2026-03-28text/htmlen-USSamba and the Poetic Fabric of the Work of Carolina Maria de Jesus2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®1124412026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Religião, violência, e resistência histórica em Cidade de Deus
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986777
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Ao observar os estudos sobre o cinema brasileiro das últimas três décadas, certamente um título se destaca. Quiçá o maior sucesso internacional da produção cinematográfica do maior país da América Latina, Cidade de Deus (2002)—dirigido por Fernando Meirelles e Kátia Lund—joga o espectador violentamente num mundo que, para muitos, é completamente desconhecido e expõe as complexidades da vida numa comunidade carioca que leva o mesmo nome que o filme. Embora baseado no romance homônimo de Paulo Lins (originalmente publicado em 1997)—que era alicerçado em eventos reais—os diretores se permitiram certa liberdade ao criar o filme. Existe todo tipo de estudo acadêmico sobre este êxito e, portanto, as mais diversas
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallReligião, violência, e resistência histórica em Cidade de Deus2026-03-28text/htmlen-USReligião, violência, e resistência histórica em Cidade de Deus2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®840272026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Free Admission to Visitors: Maura Lopes Cançado, A Writer Between the Art World and the Asylum
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986778
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“Seeing startlingly stareable people challenges our assumptions by interrupting complacent visual business-as-usual. Staring offers an occasion to rethink the status quo. Who we are can shift into focus by staring at who we think we are not.”Growing up on an aristocratic farm in Minas Gerais, the white Brazilian author Maura Lopes Cançado (1929–1993) was never the best fit for rural conservative life. By the time she left home at age 17, she had already dropped out of several boarding schools, married, had a child, divorced, learned to fly a plane, crashed a plane (apparently because she wanted to know how it would feel), and spent away her entire inheritance. A voracious reader from a young age, she moved to Rio
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallFree Admission to Visitors: Maura Lopes Cançado, A Writer Between the Art World and the Asylum2026-03-28text/htmlen-USFree Admission to Visitors: Maura Lopes Cançado, A Writer Between the Art World and the Asylum2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®1095132026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Camping Authenticity: Queer Brazilian Fandom and Dragging Icons Across Borders
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986779
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Catalyzed by the competition reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009–present), there has been an ongoing global proliferation of mass media and popular culture featuring drag, including in Brazil, which has become an increasingly significant node in the transnational mediascapes of queer consumer communities. A seemingly endless stream of Brazilian series centered around drag started with Glitter: Em Busca de um Sonho (2012–2015). At the urging of transgender television personality Lena Oxa, a network in the Northeastern state of Ceará—paradoxically one of the most dangerous regions for LGBTQ+ Brazilians—produced the first reality show in Brazil to feature exclusively trans, gay, and drag queen contestants
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallCamping Authenticity: Queer Brazilian Fandom and Dragging Icons Across Borders2026-03-28text/htmlen-USCamping Authenticity: Queer Brazilian Fandom and Dragging Icons Across Borders2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®1177132026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Macau na poesia de Fernanda Dias: Uma cartografia subjetiva, temática e teórica
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986780
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O livro de poemas de Fernanda Dias, O mapa esquivo (2016), traz uma imagem que perpassa toda a sua obra: um mapa de Macau como um território inexplicável. Que Macau é essa? Será que tem fronteiras? Tem definições? Pode ser mapeada? Quantos lugares são descritos como inexistentes ou como indelevelmente existentes em uma memória que se tem ou se cria de Macau? Quantas inúmeras Macaus existem na literatura e no imaginário que perpassa a poesia de Fernanda Dias?Cartografar a poesia de Fernanda Dias, em conjunto com alguns dos principais conceitos críticos sobre a literatura de Macau, é o desafio proposto neste estudo. Toda cartografia (mesmo que íntima e esquiva, como é o caso desta aqui) pressupõe o levantamento de um
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallMacau na poesia de Fernanda Dias: Uma cartografia subjetiva, temática e teórica2026-03-28text/htmlen-USMacau na poesia de Fernanda Dias: Uma cartografia subjetiva, temática e teórica2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®963722026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America by Ashley R. Brock (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986782
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In Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America, Ashley Brock develops the notion of dwelling in formally difficult literary texts as a way for readers to learn to inhabit (but never fully understand) places depicted in mid-twentieth century Latin American novels. Through a theoretical approach couched in varying notions of critical regionalism, dwelling, and phenomenological subjectivity—in dialogue with critics in multiple disciplines—Brock engages in a close reading of novels by three of Latin America’s most famous “non-Boom” writers: José María Arguedas, João Guimarães Rosa, and Juan José Saer. These writers are known for works that go beyond simplistic notions of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallDwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America by Ashley R. Brock (review)2026-03-28text/htmlen-USDwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America by Ashley R. Brock (review)2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®268972026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Claiming Brazil: Performances of Citizenship in the Centenary of Independence by Gregg Bocketti (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986783
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From aviator journeys and exhibit pavilions to soccer tournaments and monument building, Gregg Bocketti’s book, Claiming Brazil: Performances of Citizenship in the Centenary of Independence, shows that Brazil's 1922 celebrations of independence from Portugal had something for just about everyone. The study focuses on a short but underappreciated period in Brazil’s identity formation. Drawing on Roy Pappaport’s understanding of ritual experiences of “time out of time,” Bocketti posits that “the celebrations of the centenary called Brazilians to step out of the quotidian and concentrate their attentions on ideas and issues that many of them rarely considered” (8). In detailing the varied regional, class, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallClaiming Brazil: Performances of Citizenship in the Centenary of Independence by Gregg Bocketti (review)2026-03-28text/htmlen-USClaiming Brazil: Performances of Citizenship in the Centenary of Independence by Gregg Bocketti (review)2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®89302026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System: Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese by Carlos Garrido Castellano (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986784
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Carlos Garrido Castellano’s Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System arrives as a timely and thought-provoking contribution to contemporary literary and cultural studies. Recognized for his work on socially engaged art, civic agency, and postcolonial cultural production, Garrido Castellano’s latest book explores the intersection between literature and the contemporary art world, with a particular emphasis on Spanish and Portuguese narratives. The study examines how novels, particularly in the last two decades, have increasingly taken on the logic, language, and contradictions of the global art system, not merely as subject matter but as structural frameworks. Through a meticulous and comparatist lens, the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallLiterary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System: Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese by Carlos Garrido Castellano (review)2026-03-28text/htmlen-USLiterary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System: Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese by Carlos Garrido Castellano (review)2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®108562026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century ed. by Draper III, Jack A. and Cacilda M. Rêgo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986785
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Women’s contribution to Brazilian cinema has been historically underestimated and underrepresented by the patriarchy, which reproduces itself in all facets of society, including the audiovisual industry. In Brazil, the boom in cinematic production since the 1990s, known as the retomada, and increasing opportunities for women to pursue education and careers in the field has created conditions for the unprecedented participation of women in cinema in the twenty-first century. Despite this, scholars have contributed to women’s relative invisibility in the industry. As Jack A. Draper III and Cacilda M. Rêgo observe in the introduction to Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallWoman-Centered Brazilian Cinema: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century ed. by Draper III, Jack A. and Cacilda M. Rêgo (review)2026-03-28text/htmlen-USWoman-Centered Brazilian Cinema: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century ed. by Draper III, Jack A. and Cacilda M. Rêgo (review)2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®119062026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America by Carolina Sá Carvalho (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986786
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“What do people do with traces of ruination happening far from their immediate surroundings, and how do photographic images shape our political imagination?” Carolina Sá Carvalho asks in Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America (234). These questions, so relevant to our contemporary engagement with images of capitalist destruction, expand into a poignant examination of the emerging role of photography in the expansion of capitalist violence into the hinterlands of South America in the early decades of the twentieth century. Sá Carvalho offers a groundbreaking investigation of how photographs of war, exploitation of Indigenous peoples, and environmental
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallTraces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America by Carolina Sá Carvalho (review)2026-03-28text/htmlen-USTraces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America by Carolina Sá Carvalho (review)2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®101682026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28New Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy by Alexandre Busko Valim and Ana Maria Mauad (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986787
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The title of this collection of essays may lead the reader to assume that the authors are addressing the Good Neighbor Policy in the broadest sense, when in fact almost all of the 17 chapters directly discuss the Good Neighbor Policy’s many ramifications in and for Brazil. But this by no means implies that the book has a “narrow” focus since Brazil was by far the most important target of the initiatives developed under the umbrella of the Good Neighbor Policy, and especially by its Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA) once the US began mobilizing for war. The combination of raw materials that Brazil could provide for the war effort and the strategic position of the Nordeste, the closest point
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/273/image/coversmallNew Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy by Alexandre Busko Valim and Ana Maria Mauad (review)2026-03-28text/htmlen-USNew Perspectives on the Good Neighbor Policy by Alexandre Busko Valim and Ana Maria Mauad (review)2026-03-282026TWOProject MUSE®102462026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-03-28