Code   .   MCTI/CNPq nº 16/2024
Start   .   2025
Duration   .   24 months
Principal Investigator   .   Susan de Oliveira (Federal University of Santa Catarina)

Website: https://romanceposcolonial.site

Institutions

Funding Entity

Coordinating Institution

Partnerships

This is a comparative literature project on contemporary historical novels written in Portuguese by women, with their postmodern and postcolonial nuances and problematizations, in which the axis of the comparative analysis is the documentary and historical investigation of the colonial past, crossing the social margins of the Luso-Brazilian Empire as a geopolitical, epistemological, legal, religious and ideological formation. The corpus presents works that elaborate local experiences of colonialism, through characters, plots and time frames from the 16th to the 19th century. They are: “Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz. A incrível trajetória de uma princesa negra entre a prostituição e a santidade” (1997), by Heloísa Maranhão, “Um defeito de cor” (2006), by Ana Maria Gonçalves, “Deus-dará, Sete dias na vida de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, ou o Apocalipse segundo Lucas, Judite, Zaca, Tristão, Inês, Gabriel & Noé” (2016), by Alexandra Lucas Coelho, “O crime do Cais do Valongo” (2018), by Eliana Alves Cruz, “O som do rugido da onça” (2021), by Micheliny Verunschk, “Três histórias de esquecimento” (2021), by Djaimila Pereira de Almeida. Historical novels written by women are important for this project because their voices, in their diversity, have been the most silenced by history and are now taking on the task of provoking fissures in the discursive formation at the heart of Portuguese-Brazilian colonial and imperial institutions in search of marginalized voices and denied citizenship.

Susan de Oliveira (Federal University of Santa Catarina) . Coordinator

Researchers

Margarida Rendeiro (CHAM)

Luana Barossi (Federal University of Santa Catarina)

Daviane Moreira (Federal University of Jataí)

Tereza Manjate (Eduardo Mondlane University)