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