We’re pleased to announce that JLS volume 2.2 (Autumn 2017), with a special dossier on Brazilian Eco-Criticism, is now available on-line. The dossier is co-edited by Patrícia Vieira and Maria Esther Maciel, and it contains a rich collection of essays from a wide range of critical perspectives.

The issue also includes articles by Catalina Iannone, Maisha Mitchell, and Rex Nielson, Nicola Gavioli’s interview of Eliane Brum, and four book reviews.


JLS, Vol 2, No 2 (Fall 2017): Special Dossier on Brazilian Eco-Criticism

Table of Contents

Special Dossier

Plants and Animals in Brazilian Literature: Introduction
Patrícia Vieira,Maria Esther Maciel

Como e por que entrar em árvores
Sérgio Medeiros

Posthumanism, Animism, and Sérgio Medeiros’s Pluriverse Poetics
Malcolm McNee

Ficções caninas em Clarice Lispector e Machado de Assis
Maria Esther Maciel

Baleia, de Graciliano Ramos: uma meditação sobre a vida sensível do animal
Fernanda Coutinho

Interspecies Literature: Clarice Lispector’s Zoophytographia
Patrícia Vieira

‘O Chão é a Grande Pregunta’: Non-Human Temporalities in Nuno Ramos
Gabriel Giorgi

Articles

Invented Difference: On Inter-Culturality in Mouraria’s Mercado de Fusão
Catalina Iannone

The Aquatic Woman: The Role of Water and the Feminine Divine in Mia Couto’s Terra Sonâmbula
Maisha Mitchell

Wandering and Ecological Ethos in ‘A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga’
Rex Nielson

Interviews

A gente não mergulha no mundo do outro impunemente: uma conversa com Eliane Brum
Nicola Gavioli

Book Reviews

Monteiro, George. The Pessoa Chronicles: Poems, 1980-2016. Bricktop, 2016.
Margarida Vale de Gato

Rufino dos Santos, Joel. A história do negro no teatro brasileiro. Novas Direções, 2015.
Isadora Grevan de Carvalho

Cabral, Amilcar. Resistance and Decolonization, translated and edited by Dan Wood, with an introduction by Reiland Rabaka, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Charles Peterson

Bishop-Sánchez, Kathryn. Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom. Vanderbilt UP, 2016.
Alessandra Santos