Mário Augusto Medeiros da Silva

Sentidos da crise: literatura e processos sociais em Fogo morto e Cidade de Deus

This paper approaches the novels Fogo morto (1943) by Jose Lins do Rego and Cidade de Deus (1997): a novel by Paulo Lins to explore the hypothesis that the narratives deals with aspects of processes of social crisis and, by doing so, trigger violence as privileged mediation of relations between these individuals and the state. Accordingly, the conflicts over authority and power establish the connections between literary form and social process, enabling to analyze the boundaries to the effectiveness of social rights and, consequently, the statement of equality as a regulatory principle of the Brazilian republican life.

Frantz Fanon e o ativismo político-cultural negro no Brasil: 1960/1980

The article intends to contribute to the debate about the reception of the ideas of the intellectual and activist Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) in Brazil. In this sense, it seeks to offer subsidies to previous discussions and to confirm some of their hypotheses, demonstrating that in the 1980s there was a moment of approach and use of some of Fanon´s ideas in Brazilian black political and cultural activism, especially among intellectuals of the group Quilombhoje Literature (1978-).