This seminar will verticalise the discussions promoted in the two previous dialogues within the scope of literary theory in Brazil in its institutionalised form since the 1960s. Based on this reflection, we will facilitate a debate on the categories of amefricanity by Lélia Gonzalez, Abya Yala organised by Emil Keme and the Countercoloniality of Antonio Bispo dos Santos, aimed at an understanding of the theory of literature in contemporary Brazil and how Ladino-African epistemologies can resignify and fissure the centripetal institutionality of this area of knowledge.

Programme
1. Review of the first and second dialogues;

2. The state of institutionalised literature theory in Brazil;

3. Lélia Gonzalez and Amefricanity in Ladino-African literature
Emil Keme: the literature of Abya Yala
Antonio Bispo dos Santos: Countercoloniality in the Cosmologies of Literature

Bio notes 

Moderator: Patrícia Vieira is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra. Her research areas are Iberian and Latin American Literature and Cinema, Utopia Studies and Environmental Humanities. Her most recent books are States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture (SUNY, 2018) and the co-edited book The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (Synergetic Press, 2021). She is developing the ECO project - Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions on the Amazon Basin, funded by a Consolidator grant from the European Research Council (ERC). For more information: http://www.patriciavieira.net/ For information on the ECO project, see: eco.ces.uc.pt

Harlon Homem de Lacerda Sousa is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra with the project “Literary narrative theory in a countercolonial and amefrican cosmoperception’. He is a lecturer on the Humanities/Portuguese course at the State University of Piauí - Campus Professor Possidônio Queiroz (UESPI-OEIRAS). In 2018, he defended his doctoral thesis ‘The Sertanejo Architectonics of João Guimarães Rosa's Fiction’.

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