A Revista Crioula é uma publicação científica dos alunos de pós-graduação da Área de Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa do Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas da Universidade de São Paulo (ECLLP - DLCV - FFLCH/USP). O periódico promove a difusão da produção científica dos alunos e ex-alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa da USP, bem como de pesquisadores de outras universidades do Brasil e do exterior.
Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
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From the poetry of the agoras to virtual poetry: poetic battles in the são paulo interscholastic ix slam from the perspective of the screen
This article analyzes the transformations that have occurred in slam events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We take as our object the IX São Paulo Inter-School Slam, which, due to the health emergency, migrated from the stage to the virtual environment as live. The research, based on observation and analysis of recordings, made use of studies of re-existence literacies (SOUZA, 2011), as well as the concept of remediation (BOLTER & GRUSIN, 2000), performance (ZUMTHOR, 2014) and infoesthetics (MANOVICH, 2008).
Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Fabiana Medeiros de Holanda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Women’s experiences in the Angolan wars: a reexamination of literary protagonism
This article aims to discuss the presence of female characters in three literary works: Mayombe, by Pepetela; A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier, by Luandino Vieira; and Essa dama bate bué!, by Yara Monteiro. With this aim, the relevance of social aspects for the construction of narratives (Candido, 2023) and the notion of representation as a distorted reflection of reality (Eagleton, 2011) are considered with the objective of understanding the role of women in the armed struggles.
Dossiê - A participação das mulheres nas lutas de libertação
Copyright (c) 2025 Letícia Vital Ferreira, Mariana Menezes Marcondes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Anticolonial poetics: ritual of memory in Deolinda Rodrigues
This article analyzes the work of Deolinda Rodrigues from an anticolonial perspective, highlighting the ritual character of memory in her diary writing during the liberation struggle of Angola. The urgent writing, permeated by a body in transition and at war, transforms the daily life of armed struggle into an existential and collective archive. By bringing her trajectory closer to an epic paradigm, her journey is interpreted as a political and symbolic odyssey whose memory becomes a ritual of resistance and survival.
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Copyright (c) 2026 Fernanda Sampaio Gomes dos Santos, Carla Taís dos Santos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Women's participation in the Struggle for national liberation
This article examines the role of women in the liberation struggles of Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau, arguing that their participation constituted a complex space in which the anticolonial fight intertwined with an incipient quest for social and gender emancipation. Drawing on the thought of Amílcar Cabral, who regarded women’s participation as essential to revolutionary success, the analysis traces an arc that extends from the endogenous critique of militants such as Deolinda Rodrigues, Titina Silá, and Josina Machel — who exposed the contradictions between egalitarian rhetoric and lived reality — to contemporary literary production.
Copyright (c) 2025 Rejane Vecchia da Rocha e Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
“Twelve years weigh like kilos of lead”: Clarice Lispector's social engagement in the short story “A fuga”
Our work investigates how Clarice Lispector portrays the domestic life of the female protagonist of the short story “A fuga” (1940) as an invisible social problem. Literary critics considered this writer “alienated” for not writing about the “real world” and, for this reason, she was constantly asked to take a stand. Based on the assumptions of Benoît Denis (2002), this work demonstrates that, in her own way, Lispector was committed to the social issues of women of her time.
Copyright (c) 2025 Me. Glenda Lobato Sobral https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
A New Glass Door: Masculinities in Brazilian Youth Literature
This study examines the construction of masculinities in Brazilian young adult literature and the concealment of gender power relations within this subsystem. Through historical, sociological, and literary perspectives, it highlights the androcentrism of writing and the erasure of male bodies in literature, contrasted with the recurring embodiment of female characters, while investigating the role of youth adult literature in both reproducing and subverting gender normativity.
Copyright (c) 2025 Samira dos Santos Ramos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The fictionalization of the “Brazilian” returnees in Ana Maria Gonçalves’ novel Um defeito de cor
This article presents an analysis of the fictionalization of the “Brazilian” returnees depicted in the novel Um defeito de cor, from the perspective of the novel’s narrator. The aim is to understand the identity construction of these characters, especially Kehinde/Luísa, through questions involving remembrance and cultural identity. The theoretical framework used was the work of Paul Ricoeur, Aleida Assmann, Joël Candau, Fernando Ortiz, Milton Guran, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, and Abdelmalek Sayad.
Copyright (c) 2025 Lucimara Ota Eshima https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Between the conference and Paulina Chiziane’s novel: voices and memory of african women in the liberation struggles
The article examines how Paulina Chiziane combines memory, literature, and politics to highlight women's experiences in liberation struggles, questioning the male-centered narrative and reinscribing women into history. Her writing transforms the novel into a space of memory and resistance, expanding the notion of liberation by incorporating gender and subjectivity.
Copyright (c) 2025 Idalina Ferreira Caldas, Maria Lucilena Gonzaga Costa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
O Protagonismo Feminino na Guerra Colonial
The aim of this article is to reflect on the Portuguese colonial war imposed on Guinea-Bissau, based on the presence of women in the armed struggle for national liberation. The role of women in the Guinean political movement was of great importance in the conquest of freedom, especially with the participation of guerrillas Carmen Pereira and Titina Silá.
Betinha Yadira Augusto Bidemy Casimiro Sá
Copyright (c) 2025 Betinha Yadira Augusto Bidemy Casimiro Sá, Angela Guida https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The deconstruction of the maternal ideal in the novel A pediatra by Andréa del Fuego
This paper analyzes the novel A Pediatra (2021) by Andréa del Fuego, with an emphasis on the demystification of motherhood. The narrative follows Cecília, a neonatologist who avoids emotional bonds with her patients and challenges stereotypes of femininity. Drawing on authors such as Elisabeth Badinter (2011) and Silvia Federici (2021), the study identifies the narrative strategies employed by the author to question certain ideals of subservience and the historical construction of the maternal ideal.
Carolina Cassese de Vasconcellos Serelle
Copyright (c) 2025 Carolina Cassese de Vasconcellos Serelle, Priscila Campolina de Sá Campello, Rafaela Vieira Ozava https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Between Ruins and Ghosts: Civil Conflict and Female Representations in Contemporary Angolan Narrative
In contemporary Angolan literary narratives, suffering transcends individual memory, functioning as a device that reinscribes historical pains and fosters decolonial thought. This article analyzes examples in which the female figure — literal or metaphorical — acts as a catalyst for this critical awakening, showing how the duplication of the subject in the Angolan space generates specters: ghostly representations that persistently evoke the memory of the past.
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Erased signatures: Author function´s detours in Osman Lins e J. P. Zooey
In the light of Michel Foucault (1997), this article considers authorship as a construct, as well as its possible implications for writing processes and procedures. To this end, comparative lines will be drawn between two works whose authors stand out for different reasons: A Rainha dos Cárceres da Grécia, by Osman Lins (2005), and Los electrocutados, by J. P. Zooey (2011).
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Lembras-te?: travelling the historical horizon as a means of shedding light on the present
This article suggests a dialogue between the short story Lembras-te? by São Toméan writer Olinda Beja and the narrative crisis discussed by Walter Benjamin in The Storyteller (1987). It also establishes a relationship with the historical materialism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as presented in The German Ideology (2001).
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Expediente, Sumário e Editorial n° 35 - Periferias no Centro
Expediente, Sumário e Editorial do Dossiê Periferias no Centro. Edição n° 35 da Revista Crioula.
Elieni Cristina da Silva Amorelli Caputo
Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Beatriz Silva, Bruno Barra da Silva, Elieni Cristina da Silva Amorelli Caputo, Fernando Martins Lara, José Fabio Rodrigues Maciel, Letícia Vital Ferreira, Mariana Menezes Marcondes, Vinicius Silva Souza, Samira dos Santos Ramos, Simone Gomes da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
In this study, we reflect on the genesis of coco literature and its articulation, over time, with the black experience in Brazil. In addition, we observed the intergenerational inheritance of poetic verses, the authorship and representativeness of women coco singers from Cariri, Ceará. Our activity mainly took into account the valuable theoretical contributions of Mário de Andrade, Ignez Ayala and the Popular Culture Research Center - Behetçoho.
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Be author: images of the metapoesia in Herberto Helder
The article analyzes the image of the author and the metapoetry in Herberto Helder, whose poetry combines neo-romanticism, eroticism and expressive freedom. The authorship goes beyond the signature, becoming a language experience in dialogue with Blanchot, Barthes and Foucault. Metapoetry, articulating body and creation, reaffirms the literary transcendence and authorial complexity.
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The short story narrates the friendship between Lucas and Paulo, which began in childhood in a small town in the countryside of Minas Gerais. United by games, discoveries, and dreams, the two grow up together, sharing an almost fraternal bond. The narrative follows their paths from rural childhood through an adolescence marked by parties, drugs, sexual awakenings, and intellectual ambitions, into adulthood, when both graduate and begin to follow separate roads. The move to a larger city, romantic relationships, university life, and the beginning of their professional careers gradually drive the friends apart. What was once a visceral connection turns into a growing silence, punctuated by chance encounters and failed attempts at reconnection. The story culminates in a final, cold, and bureaucratic meeting that symbolizes the quiet end of a relationship that, despite everything, remains alive in Lucas’s memory as a persistent absence, an “empty chair in a corner of memory". The story is a sensitive and melancholic portrait of male friendship, coming of age, and the invisible losses imposed by time. With affectionate and realistic language, it evokes the layers of intimacy, the rites of passage, and the erosion of relationships in the face of adult life.
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“É preciso popularizar a literatura”: poesia, periferias e ruptura com Sérgio Vaz
Aos 61 anos de idade, Sérgio Vaz, natural do município de Ladainha (MG), criador da Cooperifa e um dos realizadores do Sarau da Cooperifa, que converteu o Bar do Zé Batidão no Taboão da Serra num polo cultural tradicional da zona Sul de São Paulo é um dos autores mais associados ao movimento de literatura periférica. Como produtor cultural, envolveu-se desde o final dos anos oitenta na promoção da cultura por mediações de leitura, oficinas e rodas de conversa, nas escolas da periferia, iniciativas que resultaram nas ações “Poesia Contra a Violência”, “Natal com Livros”, “Várzea Poética”, “Poesia nos Muros” e “Mostra Cultural da Cooperifa”, entre outras. Neste ano no qual foi condecorado com a Ordem do Mérito Cultural, atualmente com 9 livros publicados, o autor do Manifesto da Antropofagia Periférica que embasou a manifestação de 40 coletivos na realização da “Semana de Arte Moderna da Periferia” em 2007 responde a perguntas sobre as transformações da cultura brasileira, sobre sua carreira, e percepções a respeito do protagonismo de autores que outrora não figuravam no cânone literário.e dos leitores com quem dialoga.
Copyright (c) 2025 Simone Gomes, Fernando Martins Lara, Mariana Menezes Marcondes, Elieni Cristina da Silva Amorelli Caputo, Fabio Rodrigues Maciel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
‘Crias’: marginal literature and the new subjects of enunciation in Brazilian Literature
This essay undertakes a critical examination of the principal theoretical and critical debates within the field of literary studies, prompted by the emergence of peripheral authors in the contemporary literary landscape. The concluding section presents a focused analysis of Geovani Martins' two books, The Sun on My Head and Via Ápia Geovani Martins.
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Argumentative validation in female blood fights
The article discusses the management of disagreement and the construction of arguments in situations of conflicting opinions, focusing on female rap battles. It uses Plantin's (1990; 2005; 2016) dialogical argumentation model and Grácio's (2010; 2012) contributions to discuss argumentation in the context of interaction, along with author (year; year; year; year). The research highlights how factors such as the modality of battles, gender, social values, and the audience impact the arguments.
Copyright (c) 2025 Letícia Maria de Jesus Teixeira, Rubens Damasceno-Morais https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Mukanda Tiodora: redefining the Margins Between Orality and Writing
This article examines how Mukanda Tiodora (2022), by Marcelo D’Salete, reclaims Afro-Brazilian memory through epistolary narrative, visual aesthetics, and peripheral cultural references. The graphic novel challenges cultural hegemony by linking São Paulo’s 1866 history to contemporary struggles, positioning writing as a tool of resistance and identity. Grounded in Munanga, Hall, Gilroy, Nora, and Fanon, the study highlights the work as a visual and textual manifesto that reclaims the periphery as a center of cultural production and identity reconstruction.
Copyright (c) 2025 Roberta Maria Ferreira Alves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Writing, violence, and freedom in Carolina Maria de Jesus and Sabotage
This article proposes a comparative reading of the book Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada (1960), by Carolina Maria de Jesus, and the the rapper Sabotage and his 2016 namesake album. The brief study focuses on linguistic, discursive and literary aspects of two works, with the aim of reflecting on the complexity of writing and the aestheticization of the experience of black and poor subjects in the face of adverse historical, social, political and economic relations.
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José Luandino Vieira and the beginning of the Angolan War of Independence from the musseque
Analyzing the novel Nosso Musseque, by José Luandino Vieira, we aim to understand how the writer fictionalizes the social effervescence period that led to the national liberation struggle of Angola doing so by a focalization from the space of a musseque, peripheric and symbolical area of Luanda. To do so, we must comprehend the spatial formation of Luanda, focusing on the emergence of the musseques, and then analyzing its multiples significations in the Angolan literature.
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Travel and the traveler: Lisbon paths in Teolinda Gersão
The objective of this essay is to discuss, based on the book A cidade de Ulisses (2017), by Teolinda Gersão, how travel experiences can contribute to the transformation of the traveler's perspective and outlook on themselves and others. Thus, the literary corpus was analyzed based on the contributions on travel literature presented by Mikhail Bakhtin (2003), and reflections of Fátima Outerinho (2020).
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The Maries, by Vilani: a Novel in the Constitutive Confluence of Place and Word
This article presents a reading of the novel Memórias de Maria e um pouquinho de mim (2022), by Maria Vilani. Based on the proposition of the notions of articulating voice and announcing voice, it seeks to demonstrate, in two sections, organizing elements of confluences in the constitution of the work, whose boundaries between the lived and the invented result in an almost unimportant detail.
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“Ele é mandingueiro e sabe jogar": uma leitura de Salvador Negro Rancor
O artigo versa sobre o livro "Salvador Negro Rancor", do escritor Fábio Mandingo. Problematiza a literatura negra em contextos periféricos a partir da cena que se consolidou na Bahia nas primeiras décadas do Século XXI, a fim de contribuir com processos de legitimação e circulação de autores e obras vinculados a esta literatura e provocar zonas de estudos tanto relativos a questões temáticas quanto à estéticas destas obras.
Copyright (c) 2025 Luciana Sacramento Moreno https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0