CADERNOS DE ESTUDOS CULTURAIS

A Creating otherness and the conquer of land

Alan Osmo — 2025-11-13

Backlands, by Euclides da Cunha, and Heart of darkness, by Joseph Conrad, were both books published in the same year, in a political and intellectual context marked by the European imperialism and the scientific racism. This paper aims to make a comparison between the two literary works, based on a decolonial point of view. Three main topics are approached: first, how in both narratives an image of a strange world inhabited by totally different people is projected to the land; second, how the two authors describe a geographical journey in terms of a time travel, creating the idea of prehistorical groups of people whose habits needed to be supplanted; third, how both writers elaborate their narratives from very different perspectives: while in Conrad there is a fictive character who narrates the story, in Euclides da Cunha there is the image of an invisible scribe who supposedly transmits history from a neutral and scientific point of view.

DA LUTA POR AUTODETERMINAÇÃO EM NARRATIVAS PALESTINA E LATINO-AMERICANA

Amanda Brandão Araújo Moreno — 2025-11-13

Abstract: This essay aims to explore and compare the issue of the fighting for self-determination represented in Palestinian and Latin American narratives, focusing on the novels Men in the Sun by Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani and The President by Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias. Despite their distinct narrative techniques and literary styles, both authors converge in their exploration of critical themes that transcend their respective cultures. This study will be conducted through marxist Cultural Studies, more specifically through the works of Raymond Williams (1979), to investigate how literary narratives reflect and contribute to the fighting for self-determination. We will analyze the similarities and differences between the political, social, and cultural contexts of these regions and examine how the literary elements of the novels are used to convey the experiences of struggle and resistance of Palestinian and Latin American peoples.

A HISTÓRIA DOS MOVIMENTOS JUDAICOS OFICIAIS NOS ÚLTIMOS SÉCULOS:

Arlete Freire de Lima — 2025-11-13

This research aims to show how Jewish movements and their respective Jewish denominations have developed throughout Jewish history, focusing on Jewish movements in the last decades of the last centuries. To this end, research in online Jewish newspapers and a literature review were used, within an exploratory and qualitative approach. The conclusion was reached that Judaism has undergone several transformations, from Orthodox Judaism to non-Orthodox Judaism or progressive Judaism. New Jewish movements have emerged, generally as offshoots of Orthodox Judaism and Reform Judaism, with the emergence of pluralist, reconstructionist, humanist, universalist, and renewalist Jewish movements, among several other Jewish denominations. Judaism has as its essence its renewal, progressive, humanist, democratic, and evolutionary aspect, due to the influence of which modern and contemporary Judaism has evolved greatly in democratic societies such as the United States of America and Canada, especially.

(DIS) APPROXIMATIONS BETWEEN BELL HOOKS AND GENI NÚÑEZ:

Beatriz Borges Brambilla — 2025-11-13

The present work aimed to explore the complexity of love and its definitions through a comparative analysis of the work of two authors. The chosen authors were bell hooks and Geni Núñez, known for their writings on love from a decolonial perspective and in opposition to romantic love. A comparative documentary research was conducted based on the following documents: 1. The book All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks; 2. The chapter Love as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks; 3. The chapter The Practice of Love by bell hooks; 4. The book Decolonizing Affects: Experimentations on Other Ways of Loving; 5. The lecture Monogamy and Identity in the Clinic by Geni Núñez. The analysis provided an overview of the similarities and differences between the authors and their perceptions of love as a decolonial practice. It is noteworthy that both authors converge in their understanding of love as a practice, an action directed toward freedom. However, they diverge in their definitions of some critiques and positions regarding capitalist institutions, differences that primarily stem from the epistemological understandings of each author, as they come from distinct places—one speaks from a critical perspective of Black feminism in the United States, while the other from the radicality of decolonization proposed by the Guarani indigenous peoples.

BATE, GIRA, GINGA, SAMBA:

Bernardo Gomes Barbosa Nogueira — 2025-11-13

The samba-body-territory emerges as a phenomenon that escapes neoliberal rationality and colonialism, positioning itself as a form of resistance against the existential flattening imposed by the modern scientific paradigm. When collectively inscribed through the samba circle, the body activates space, territorializing it as an affirmation of life: to exist, (re)exist, and resist. This theoretical research, grounded in articles and books, investigates the potential of the samba-body-territory as a decolonial force. Functioning both as metaphor and method, it contributes to interdisciplinary dialogues among Law, Art, and Territory, while also offering a lens to perceive the Other and their alternative worldviews. Ultimately, the study suggests that this category retrieves the dimension of the yet-to-come. Drawing from Derridean deconstruction and the ethics of alterity, the samba-body-territory is seen as a living metaphor for the deconstruction of colonial normativities—embodying, in rhythm and movement, a democracy still to come.

THE IDENTILASTICITY OF THE LGBT BODY

Carlos Igor de Oliveira Jitsumori — 2025-11-13

The article addresses the notion of identilasticity as a theoretical key to understanding identity, body and difference from a decolonial perspective. Identity is conceived not as a static essence, but as an elastic and borderline process, in permanent negotiation, revealing the demands of a Latin body. Dialoguing with cultural studies and decolonial thought, it articulates contributions from Foucault, Butler, Bhabha, Quijano and Dussel to reflect on the Latin American condition, marked by coloniality, but also by the creative power of difference, especially with regard to the experiences of LGBT bodies. The body is taken as a territory of power and resistance, in which discourses are inscribed and fissures open, with the school being an emblematic space of this tension, permeated by historical violence. It is concluded that assuming Latin American difference is an ethical-political imperative, and that identilasticity represents a critical horizon for rethinking identity, gender and culture in an insurgent and decolonial key.

Uprooted

Danglei de Castro Pereira — 2025-11-13

The present work aims to discuss aspects of coloniality seen from within the poetic language from Mato Grosso do Sul. The writer and poet, Gleycielli Nonato, a riverine from the banks of the Taquari River, from the Pantanal of the Payaguás, indigenous of the Guató ethnicity, outlines in her poetry some traits of the colonized being, which we understand as one who has suffered all kinds of violence imposed by the desire for domination and appropriation not only of goods, but of the racialized and colonized human being. Our reflection should focus on three aspects: (1) the sensitivity of the colonized being that leaps in the poetry, (2) the violence marked in the poetic text in the form of lament, (3) the colonized poet, yet not silenced: poetry as a liberating language. As a theoretical reference we use: Walter Mignolo, Edward Said, Zulma Palermo, Walter Benjamin, and Vladimir Safatle.

SILVIANO SANTIAGO E A LITERATURA COMPARADA HOJE:

Edgar Cézar Nolasco — 2025-11-14

O ensaio visa pensar na possível rubrica de uma Literatura comparada pós-colonial
brasileira, tendo por estofo e fundamentação teórica a obra crítica do intelectual brasileiro Silviano
Santiago. Para tanto, parte do conceito de “entre-lugar” (1971) do autor, passando pelos livros
mais recentes como Fisiologia da composição (2020) e O grande relógio (2024). A
fundamentação teórica a respeito do tema tratado encontra começo no ensaio “A literatura
brasileira da perspectiva pós-colonial – um depoimento” (2014).

BELEZA, VIOLÊNCIA E SEXUALIZAÇÃO DOS CORPOS:

Fabio da Silva Sousa — 2025-11-14

Coloniality imposed new ways of inhabiting the body, establishing norms, standards, and rules for self-naming and naming others. Our objective is to reflect, based on decolonial studies, on how bodies are depicted in Our Share of Night: a novel by Mariana Enriquez. We focus on two main aspects: the imposition of a European beauty standard and its impact on the lives of Rosario Bradford and Tali, distorting their self-image and self-esteem; and secondly, the Order as an institution that persisted through the coloniality of power and gender, exploiting, abusing, and killing male and female mediums. The preliminary findings suggest that in contemporary times, the ideal body is unattainable and is often a product of market strategies, marginalizing other forms of beauty. Regarding the mediums, it was observed that all of them were assaulted; however, the African body was dehumanized and animalized, while immigrant bodies in Latin America were sexualized and fetishized. We engage with decolonial theories to explore the intricate relationships shaped by coloniality as depicted in the novel.

AMÉRICA LATINA NA (IN)DIFERENÇA:

Fábio do Vale — 2025-11-13

This article proposes to examine, through Decolonial Comparative Literature, the inter-places and inter-bodies that constitute the critical fabric of the Bioceanic Corridor – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Chile – understood as an epistemological locus for the refounding of silenced Latinities. Returning to Enrique D. Dussel's fortitudo critica and Edgar Cézar Nolasco's seminal proposition in Decolonial Comparative Literature (2025), it is argued that Latin American (in)difference, engendered by the Eurocentric status quo, has hindered the emergence of its own dialogues, erasing convergences that should already have been established. In this borderline radius, decolonial criticism establishes itself as the driving force behind the unveiling of (un)covered routes, straining the erasures inherited from modernity and instituting other forms of intellectual conviviality. The Bioceanic Route, more than a geopolitical corridor, should be a metaphor for the circulation of knowledge, affections, and critiques that challenges canonical tradition and establishes the possibility of a South American critical fortune. This work is anchored in this disruptive vision, whose scope broadens the debate on philosophizing-being beyond Western dialectics, opening paths of thought capable of reconstituting the Latinities of dormant landscapes and enhancing the epistemic locus of Latin America as a space that radiates knowledge and intellectualities effective in the Southern Cone as a comparative scientific inquiry.

REFLECTIONS OF A COLONIZED MIRROR:

Felisa Cançado Anaya — 2025-11-14

This paper investigates the historical formation of hegemonic beauty standards in Brazil, examining their origins in the colonial period and their reconfiguration through eugenic theories in the post-abolition era. Drawing on the theoretical framework of coloniality of power (Quijano) and critical whiteness studies (Schwarcz, Bento), we demonstrate how the whitening ideal was operationalized through three key mechanisms: the implementation of selective immigration policies favoring Europeans between 1890-1970; the medicalization of Black and Indigenous phenotypic traits as pathological "deviations"; and the institutionalization of aesthetic hierarchies through scientific, educational and media apparatuses. The analysis reveals how these processes converged to naturalize whiteness as a standard of humanity, transforming European bodily features into implicit criteria of social, professional and affective worth. The study contributes to understanding the persistence of these structures today, where Eurocentric beauty standards continue to regulate access to opportunities and social recognition.

LANDSCAPE AESTHETICS: material, gestures and images of violence

Francisco Hernández Galván — 2025-11-14

This article advances on the premise of the existence of an aesthetic policy within the deteriorated frameworks of the social and cultural landscape, with the purpose of developing an epistemology that allows understanding contemporary violence. We focus on the connection between politics and aesthetics that contributes to structure, in a cruel and strategic way, a directed and multifunctional violence through the configuration of the landscape. In addressing the landscape of violence, we identify a space where the tone and texture of the forces operating in this context take shape. From a deleuzian perspective, we maintain that this landscape has a baroque character, always manifesting under a saturation logic. In its material dimension, the landscape influences sensitive experiences related to contemporary violence by providing cultural scripts that shape these perceptions. Its dynamic is expressed both in its content and form, articulated through a semiotics that constantly organizes and disorganizes the landscape.

ALGUMAS CONSIDERAÇÕES BREVES A PARTIR DOS POEMAS SALVAJES DE GLORIA ANZALDÚA

João Paulo Tinoco — 2025-11-14

For this essay, we offer some considerations based on Gloria E. Anzaldúa's poem collection, the second part of her work Borderlands/la frontera: the new mestiza, published in 1987. Our proposal throughout this essay is to bring to light, through the lens of decolonial epistemologies, fragments of some of her poems in the process of constructing her notions. The justification for discussing Anzaldúa's poems is that there are still few works that propose studying them. Our theoretical framework includes authors such as Coracini (2007; 2014), Vigil (2016), Keating (2005; 2009), Curiel (2021), Nolasco (2013), and Anzaldúa herself (2012), who have discussed issues from the perspective of peoples who experience the in-between space. We can infer that, from the author's poems, we encounter reflections that involve complex themes that can also be seen in her prose, such as Chicano and border identity, feminism, sexuality, queer studies, and spirituality.

DECOLONIAL PROJECTIONS IN THE CONFIGURATION OF FEMALE CHARACTERS IN XICOTÉNCATL (ANONYMOUS, 1826) AND COLOMBO AND BEATRIZ (DUBOIS, 1892)

Leila Shaí Del Pozo González — 2025-11-14

The paper highlights the portrayal of female characters in two 19th-century historical novels: Xicoténcatl (Anonymous, 1826) and Columbus and Beatriz (DuBois, 1892). The former inaugurates the writing of historical novels in Latin America. While the narrator directs his efforts on the Xicoténcatl-Cortés dichotomy, the female characters Teutila and Doña Marina (Malinche) are depicted as chess pieces in the anonymous author's thesis. The latter stands out for being the first work by a female author within the 'Poetics of 'Discovery'. In this novel, Dubois (1892) retakes a historical figure excluded from traditional historical records, Beatriz Enríquez de Harana. Drawing on Fleck (2017), Quijano (2005), Mignolo (2017), Lugones (2008), among others, we identify the main elements and discuss their configuration as decolonial aesthetic projects. As a result, we compare the three aforementioned characters and examine whether, in these portrayals, the female figure reflects, in some way, a decolonial perspective.

UNVEILING THE MYTH OF MODERNITY AND APOROPHOBIA

Luciano Costa Santos — 2025-11-14

A critical reflection on modernity, identified as a myth, is Dussel's starting point for establishing analectics—a praxis of recognizing the face of the Other and fighting for their liberation. In Dussel, the face is embodied. It is the face of the landless peasant, the quilombola, the Black person, the woman, the indigenous peoples suffering from the invasion of their territories, and all those who are concretely victims of coloniality. In this way, the present investigation aims to reveal the genesis of the ideas that underpin the myth of modernity and the aporophobic domination over the Other, considering them poor and, therefore, without social value for a capitalist society based on exchange relations. Methodologically, we utilize what we term an unmasking pedagogy, meaning an analysis of the mechanisms that underpin the myth of modernity and the strategies it employs to establish itself as "truth."

ANA-LÉTICAS DAS DIFERENÇAS:

Marcos Antônio Bessa-Oliveira — 2025-11-18

Este texto pretende ser uma re-flexão sobre algumas coisas, na verdade um pouco de
muita coisa, mas sem nenhuma pretensão de ser tudo sobre arte, cultura e conhecimento, para
todos os corpos que são considerados di-(re)ferentes: diferentes e ao mesmo tempo corpos que são
referentes das coisas que aqui serão tratadas, seja pelo aspecto das coisas que lhes são negadas,
sejam pelos aspectos das coisas que esses corpos produzem, mas que não são consideradas pelos
sistemas de arte, cultura e educação. Tais re-flexões não serão limitadas aos saberes acadêmicos,
menos ainda aos conceitos que circulam em espaços disciplinares. Por causa disso, dirão alguns
disciplinados: falta teoria! A ideia é tentar tratar das flexões (flexibilidades, do flexível e do
flexionar, etc) que determinadas coisas têm, especialmente palavras, que ao serem desconsideradas
impedem entendimentos outros sobre a maioria das muitas coisas que são produzidas por corpos
em situAção por fora dos sis-temas oficiais. Ainda que sem nenhuma pretensão oficial, almejo
apenas desconceituar as palavras em língua portuguesa, para o filosofar crítico-biogeográfico
fronteiriço, porque os conceitos impostos às palavras em língua portuguesa nos impedem de
pensar-sendo sobre as coisas que fazem parte de mundos de corpos di-(re)ferentes.

A FELICIDADE NÃO ESTÁ À VENDA:

Marta Francisco de Oliveira — 2025-11-18

Abstract: This article aims to present theories related to the epistemology of Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay – Quechua; Suma Qamanã – Aymara) of the Andean peoples. The main path of this task is to scrutinize the crisis scenario in the contemporary world, especially the environmental collapse, the multiple problems of capitalism, and the rise of diseases, highlighting that the promises made by Western modernity have not been fulfilled—in fact, they have led to harmful consequences that are increasingly evident. Beyond the politics of silencing and concealing indigenous knowledge, generated by Eurocentric modernity, these ideas and practices have survived in a dispersed manner, and ancestral memories are imbued with alternative possibilities for constructing new paths to move beyond the crises and dangers of our era. The Andean and Amazonian expressions Sumak Kawsay and Suma Qamanã refer to the pursuit of a beautiful and full life in harmony with nature. Discussions around these forms of knowledge shed light and hope on the path toward decoloniality and the aspiration to overcome the crisis scenarios of the contemporary world.

Keywords: Buen Vivir; Indigenous Knowledge; Decoloniality.

FROM BODY TO WORD

Nathalia Flores Soares — 2025-11-18

This essay offers a reading of Clarice Lispector’s chronicles through the lens of Enrique Dussel’s analectics and decolonial thinkers such as Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Rather than viewing Clarice as introspective or individualist, the author shows how her hesitant, fragmented writing calls for an ethical and epistemic listening to the other. Clarice writes from silence and the ineffable, resisting Western language as a tool of domination and classification. The essay connects Bautista’s critique of perceptual colonialism, Oyěwùmí’s denunciation of the Western invention of the body, and the view of tradition not as static heritage, but as a living epistemology. This theoretical conversation does not seek closure, but openness. To think, in this context, is to risk being born again.

Clarice Lispector;analectics; decoloniality, body; epistemology.

O SUL DA PANDEMIA:

Pedro Henrique Alves de Medeiros — 2025-11-18

Este trabalho tem por objetivo realizar uma leitura descolonial da pandemia de COVID-19 iniciada em março de 2020 a partir dos seus desdobramentos no Brasil, à época, (des)governado pelas políticas de poder hegemônicas de Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Para isso, orientamo-nos pelas reflexões de Silviano Santiago, Walter Mignolo, Edgar Cézar Nolasco, Aníbal Quijano, Newton Bignotto, Heloisa Starling, Miguel Lago, Ramón Grosfoguel e Boaventura de Sousa Santos com destaque à obra O futuro começa agora (2021). As discussões aqui evocadas se projetam a fim de comprovar como premissas de base modernas e coloniais, endossadas pelo Bolsonarismo, desprezaram corpos específicos em detrimento a outros endossando o ideal capitalista de que tudo e todos podem ser tornados mercadorias dispensáveis sem quaisquer princípios de prezar pelas vidas, em especial, aquelas situadas nas margens descortinando a perspectiva de que, tal qual o mundo, a pandemia de coronavírus acabou por criar também seu Sul.

DOMINAÇÃO EM TRÊS ATOS:

Tiago Osiro Linhar — 2025-11-13

This work, from the perspective of decolonial studies, seeks to problematize the historical project that structured the relationship between the West and literature. To this end, we propose a trajectory that begins with the final conquest of Al-Andalus and the colonization of the continent later called America. In this context, we emphasize epistemicide as one of the main mechanisms for controlling the invasion of these territories. The burning of Al-Andalus libraries and the codices of the indigenous peoples, according to our hypothesis, constitute founding gestures of modern Western literature. In addition to epistemicide, we highlight the narrative constructions that forged the image of the conquered peoples as "savages" in contrast to the "civilized" European. Finally, we analyze the process of domination through literary manifestations—initiated with the Jesuits and consolidated by the German project of a universal literature—as well as the modern idea of European superiority that remains in the curricula of basic education and in higher education disciplines.

FROM ÑANDUTI TO CERAMIC

Valdir Aragão Nascimento — 2025-11-18

This essay addresses the influences and contributions of the artisan, writer, art critic and feminist Josefina Plá to Paraguayan culture, especially the production of ñanduti and ceramics. The study presents Josefina Plá's itinerary in Paraguay since her arrival from Spain, as well as her impressions and poetic-existential anxieties based on the poems Perdóname and La Carreta. Historical-sociological and anthropological aspects that shaped – and still shape – the current identities in Paraguay are also discussed, notably regarding issues relating to the social constructs that permeate the notion of Paraguay, having as a guiding thread ñanduti lace, ceramics and hybridizations and transculturalities of Paraguayan culture with the original Guarani people and Spain.

REVOLT

Nathalia Flores — 2025-11-13

CADERNOS DE ESTUDOS CULTURAIS:

Edgar Cézar Nolasco — 2025-11-18