Dr Lucas Amaral de Oliveira
- Project status
- Ongoing
- Programmes
- Visiting Fellowships
Project
Contested Histories of Nation-Building: Counternarratives in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
This proposal departs from the sociology of literature and decolonial theory to understand how contemporary Black Brazilian authors are engaging with established narratives of nation-building by contesting social fictions regarding racial democracy, miscegenation, and cordiality. Based in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), under the guidance of mentors from the Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group, the Fellowship will accelerate the research and enable the mutually beneficial sharing of expertise. The project has strong potential to lead to longer-term collaboration between the applicant’s home institution, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), in Brazil, and QUB, in the UK. The Fellowship will also provide opportunities for the lead applicant to present his work-in-progress to international peers and produce a paper to be submitted to a high-quality journal, activities that will underpin a manuscript that the applicant is preparing on the discursive dimensions of nation-building in Brazil.
Outputs and Media
'Contested Histories of Nation-Building: Counternarratives in Contemporary Brazilian Literature'
Paper presented at the X ABIL Conference, Cork - September, 2023
'Counternarratives in Contemporary Brazilian Literature'
Paper presented at the Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Group - Queen's University Belfast, October 2023
'Minding the Gap: Towards a Sociology of Literary Practices and Processes'
Paper presented during the Brazil: Methods in Context Seminar - November 2023