FRAGMENTS OF BAUMAN’S TRAJECTORY: Review of the book My Life in Fragments
Critical review of the book My Life in Fragments (Bauman, 2024).
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Archive and Repertoire of Black Culture in Fiction: Jorge Amado's Tenda dos Milagres
The main purpose of this article is to examine the novel Tenda dos Milagres (1969) by Jorge Amado, considering it as an archive of Afro-descendant culture. To this end, we will use reflections on the relationship between archive and fiction developed by authors such as Keen (2003), Codebò (2010)…
Percorrendo Midian: Clive Barker e a renovação da literatura de horror
Este ensaio discute a construção da representação do monstro na obra Raça da Noite, do escritor de Clive Barker. Essa análise é feita a partir da comparação de aspectos presentes na obra com elementos comuns das narrativas clássicas de horror. Para tanto, são apresentados e discutidos na…
Racism in the construction of local and regional development in Blumenau (SC): Eurocentric, Nazi, and integralist influences
This article, based on bibliographic research, seeks to recover the racist ways of thinking, feeling, and acting of the colonizers of Blumenau and the surrounding region toward the indigenous population that lived there and toward the Black people who were brought there as slaves or who later came…
Dracula: terror in a failing Empire
In this essay, I analyze Bram Stoker's "Dracula" from specific perspectives, such as the representations of the female figure, the Victorian gentleman, the Industrial Revolution, foreign immigrants in London, labor legislation, and sexuality in Victorian society. I also point out the relationships…
City, work, and urban segregation: notes from Engels
This essay analyzes some elements discussed by Engels in his study "The Condition of the Working Class in England". To this end, aspects related to the material conditions lived by workers and their employment situation are discussed. It seeks to relate both to the broader economic and social…
