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Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Short Fiction
Although Brazil is the largest Afro-descendant country outside of Africa, the literature produced by Black Brazilians is mostly unknown both in Brazil and abroad. There is a growing worldwide demand for Afro-descendant literature and a demand for decolonial practices and content, especially within Lusophone literature and literature across the Americas. Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Short Fiction emerges from a UCL-sponsored collaborative translation project, bridging Afro-Brazilian literature with a global audience to respond to the worldwide call for Afro-diasporic narratives. This unique compilation of 21 short stories includes both established and emerging Afro-Brazilian voices. The anthol...
No coração do comando
O jornalista Júlio Ludemir passou todos os finais de semana de 2001 batendo ponto num presídio carioca. Tinha um bom motivo: escrever a história de Valéria e Marquinho - a versão "Romeu e Julieta" dos presídios cariocas. Ela, sobrinha de um chefão do Terceiro Comando. Ele, integrante de primeira hora do Comando Vermelho. Esta é a explosiva e emocionante história de NO CORAÇÃO DO COMANDO, romance de estréia de Júlio Ludemir. Valéria e Marquinho se cruzaram pela primeira vez no Complexo Penitenciário Frei Caneca e logo as facções rivais proibiram o romance. Presos em cadeias vizinhas - Nelson Hungria e Milton Dias Moreira -, Valéria e Marquinho ignoraram a proibição. E, apa...
Só por hoje
Um ex-editor de sucesso caído em desgraça e uma bela e jovem garota de programa, de passado misterioso - o encontro de sair faísca entre os dois personagens é o ponto de partida do romance Só por hoje. Em Só por hoje , há muito mais que uma simples e improvável história de amor. Com linguagem despojada, por muitas vezes até brutal, com frases diretas e total ausência de lirismo de fachada, a ficção de Julio Ludemir – calcada na realidade mais crua – propõe discussões a fundo, sem deixar de entreter o leitor com um enredo cheio de reviravoltas e suspense a cada fim de capítulo. A temática que salta aos olhos aborda o problema da adição às drogas, cocaína principalment...
Sorria, você está na rocinha
A indústria da miséria nos morros cariocas é o tema do novo livro do jornalista Julio Ludemir. Depois de explorar o sistema carcerário e o mundo das drogas em No coração do comando — onde a sobrinha de um dos fundadores do Terceiro Comando se apaixona por um dos homens-forte do Comando Vermelho —, Ludemir mergulha no cotidiano das favelas cariocas. Sorria, você está na Rocinha mostra a realidade da mais famosa comunidade carente brasileira e maior favela da América Latina, encravada na zona sul do Rio de Janeiro. “Há tanto na Rocinha como nas demais favelas do Rio uma aquecida indústria da miséria, que aproveita cada uma das crises vividas pela comunidade, inclusive a atual...
O bandido da chacrete
Depois de No coração do comando, onde explora o sistema carcerário, e Sorria: você está na Rocinha, onde fala da indústria da miséria nos morros cariocas, o jornalista pernambucano Julio Ludemir mergulha de novo no submundo. Em O BANDIDO DA CHACRETE, ele acompanha a trajetória de Paulo César Chaves, o PC, um dos mais intrigantes fundadores do Comando Vermelho. Ludemir guia o leitor pelos sinuosos corredores de favelas, pelos porões dos presídios da Ilha Grande, até o burburinho dos camelôs do centro do Rio. É entre esses cenários que transita PC, um dos mais temidos assaltantes a banco da década de 1970. O BANDIDO DA CHACRETE mostra sua ascensão e queda. A infância quase id...
Co-Creation in Theory and Practice
This innovative book provides a critical analysis of diverse experiences of Co-creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North and Global South. A unique collection of international researchers, artists and activists explore how creative, arts-based methods of community engagement can help tackle marginalisation and stigmatisation, whilst empowering communities to effect positive change towards more socially just cities. Focusing on community collaboration, arts practice, and knowledge sharing, this book proposes various methods of Co-Creation for community engagement and assesses the effectiveness of different practices in highlighting, challenging, and reversing issues that most affect urban cohesion in contemporary cities.
The Art of Cultural Exchange
Can cultural exchange be understood as a mutual act of translation? Or are elements of a country’s cultural identity inevitably lost in the act of exchange? Brazil and Great Britain, although unlikely collaborators, have shared an artistic dialogue that can be traced back some 500 years. This publication, arising from the namesake research project funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, seeks to understand and raise awareness of the present practices of cultural exchange between Brazil and Great Britain in relation to their historical legacy. Presenting five case studies and eight position papers, this research-based project investigates how artists interpret...
Favela
Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term perspective available on the favelados as they struggle for a better life. Perlman discovers that while educational levels have risen, democracy has replaced dictatorship, and material conditions have improved, many residents feel more marginalized than ever. The greatest change is the explosion of drug and arms trade and the high incidence of fatal violence that has resulted. Yet the greatest challenge of all is job creation--decent work for decent pay. If unemployment and under-paid employment are not addressed, she argues, all other efforts will fail to resolve the fundamental issues. Foreign Affairs praises Perlman for writing "with compassion, artistry, and intelligence, using stirring personal stories to illustrate larger points substantiated with statistical analysis."
Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture
This volume explores ways in which the literary trope of the palimpsest can be applied to ethnic and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Based on contemporary theories of the palimpsest, the innovative chapters reveal hidden histories and uncover relationships across disciplines and seemingly unconnected texts. The contributors focus on diverse forms of the palimpsest: the incarceration of Native Americans in military forts and their response to the elimination of their cultures; mnemonic novels that rework the politics and poetics of the Black Atlantic; the urban palimpsests of Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Johannesburg, and Los Angeles that reveal layers of humanity with disparities in origin, class, religion, and chronology; and the palimpsestic configurations of mythologies and religions that resist strict cultural distinctions and argue against cultural relativism.
Lethal Intersections
School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and die dominate the news. What are the connections between such incidents of violence and extreme harm? In this new book, world-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how violence differentially affects people according to their class, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity. These invisible workings of overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms “lethal intersections,” where multiple forms of oppression converge to catalyze a set of violent practices that fall more heavily on particular groups. Drawing on a rich tapestry of cases, Collins challenges readers to reflect on what counts ...
