The Geography, Literature and Art Magazine is linked to the Department of Geography of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences FFLCH) da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).
Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
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Copyright (c) 2026 Manoel Martins de Santana Filho, Adriana Carvalho Silva, Júlio César Suzuki https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Geography and literature in, Os Sertões, by Euclides da Cunha
Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909) es uno de los personajes emblemáticos de su época, siendo autor de uno de los libros más relevantes de la historia de la literatura brasileña, Os Sertões (1902), obra capaz de generar gran impacto en la literatura brasileña. sociedad denunciando el desprecio de nuestro Estado hacia el interior del país. Este artículo tiene como objetivo resaltar los factores que hicieron de su obra un hito en nuestra historia, resaltando sus particularidades literarias y el papel de la ciencia geográfica presentada en el discurso euclidiano.
Copyright (c) 2026 João Carlos de Mattos Freitas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
MUCA as a platformized social movement – writings, digital networks, and the struggle for the city in the people’s era of history
Our goal is to problematize the writing and visual elements used by the Movimento Unido dos Camelôs (MUCA) in Rio de Janeiro as political struggle strategies for the use of territory and the right to the city. The analysis of the texts, hashtags, and images in the movement’s street campaigns and social media reveals how these graphic and digital resources add layers to geographic space and strengthen the street vendors’ struggle against repression and for the achievement of rights and recognition. This process is understood here as a platformized social movement and an expression of the popular and communicational period of history.
Copyright (c) 2026 Luis Henrique Leandro Ribeiro, Lucas Cortez Tavares, Paulo Henrique Maia de Moura https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Decolonizing knowledge: intersections between geography, art and critical education at the seminar 'Cultural geography and the decolonial turn’ at Heidelberg University in Germany
This article critically analyzes the "Cultural Geography and the Decolonial Turn" seminar held during the summer semester at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. The text explores the intersection of critical pedagogy, post-colonial theory, decolonial turn, and geographical interdisciplinarity, highlighting the importance of decolonial and collaborative methodologies to deconstruct dominant narratives and value knowledge from the Global South. We conclude that integrating these perspectives is essential for creating new inclusive and plural educational paradigms.
Copyright (c) 2026 Ádila Eugênia Brindel, Daisy Luzia do Nascimento Silva Caetano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The dardelian geographicity represented in the literature of Itamar Vieira Junior
Based on Cassirer's philosophy of Symbolic Forms and Dardel's conception of geographical reality and geographicity, the article presents a theoretical foundation for both concepts and a theoretical-conceptual overview of the spatial dimension of reality present in both geographical and literary reality. The text proposes a geographical analysis of the spatialities in Torto Arado (2019) and Salvar o Fogo (2023), by Itamar Vieira Junior, focusing on the representations of Human-Nature relationships, utilizing quotations and identifying typologies of geographicities.
Copyright (c) 2026 André Nunes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Globalization, multilingualism and information and communication technologies: understanding English and its impacts as a frontier language in Brazilian contexts
This article aims to contribute to the debate on the formative processes of reading and writing in the dialogue between Geography and linguistic studies because it consists of the analysis of the role of the English language in globalization, how it is structured in the contexts of the so-called digital age and technical information and communication systems. Analyzing the contributions of authors from different disciplines and fields of study is fundamental to understanding the forms of domination of information and digital systems, while also identifying the commanding positions for dissemination on a global scale.
Copyright (c) 2026 Marcelo Ricardo Silva Campos, Catia Antonia da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Literature in the classroom: pedagogical, geographical and creative-affective learning gains.
Recognizing that the use of literature meets a pedagogical need for diversification of languages and the construction of geographical images, we developed this work that seeks to present the learning gains that Literature in general and Cordel can generate in the teaching of Geography. To this end, we conducted qualitative research with Geography teachers working in Basic Education, through the application of questionnaires via Google forms and inferred cognitive gains of geographical, pedagogical and creative-affective order.
Copyright (c) 2026 Mariane Motta Ferreirinha https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The poetry of Manoel de Barros: for a phenomenology of the ecumens
The world is not an absolute object, stopped in front of the human. The world is defined in this way by the implication at the heart of human existence. The word, in instrumental rationality, is the entity of knowledge, of prosaic description. It is used to explain the chaos of the world, the paragraph organizes the world in thought. Objects do not want to be seen from the perspective of reasonableness. Language transgresses the world, reinvents it. Metalanguage is the resource explored by modern lyric, and the Livro das Ignoranças, by Manoel de Barros, highlights the language that displaces the useful from things.
Copyright (c) 2026 Ana Carolina Oliveira Marques, Ms. Rodrigo Emídio Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Goiânia, stone dream metropoles: the imaginary of city workers in the novel “Pão cozido debaixo de brasa” by Miguel Jorge
This present work investigates the protagonism of the paper and the scrap collectors as a way of thinking about the urban imaginary. In this postmodern novel, the metropoles of Goiânia reveals rich representations of the dramas lived at the time and space of the cesium 137 radiological accident that occurred in 1987. Thus, Pão cozido debaixo de brasa (1997), contributes to a national elaboration, and within this context, literature contributes to a critical comprehension of reality, giving visibility to a historical event. This is one of the features of literature that crosses borders, overcomes prohibitions, dictates, censorship, and challenges time.
Copyright (c) 2026 Danniella Davidson Castro, Eguimar Felício Chaveiro, Sueli Alves de Sousa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Geographical Dimension of Crooked Plow and Readings of Brazil: Body and land in Itamar Vieira Junior’s Novel
Authored by the geographer Itamar Vieira Junior, the novel Crooked Plow (2019) has such a geographical dimension that it expands perceptions about Brazil. Located in the hinterland Água Negra, the artwork is about the sisters Bibiana and Belonísia, whose lives are permeated by issues such as the recognition of quilombola identity, anti-racist education, gender violence, habitation by condition and fight for land. Based on the book, this work addresses approaches between geography and literature through the concept of mimesis and the analytical categories of body and land.
Copyright (c) 2026 Maria Clara Leadebal Celestino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The periphery in literature: a comparative study between "Quarto de Despejo" and "Guia Afetivo da Periferia"
The present work aims to compare the peripheries present in the literature of Carolina Maria de Jesus, in "Quarto de Despejo: diário de uma favelada", and Marcus Faustini, in "Guia Afetivo da Periferia". The works portray the writers' particular experiences with the city as peripheral subjects and, therefore, it is intended to discuss the differences experienced by the authors and identified in the reading of both, based on the understanding of what is periphery and being a citizen, present in the work of authors such as Nascimento (2019) and Santos (2007).
Clara Marcelle Dias de Leles Albuquerque
Copyright (c) 2026 Clara Marcelle Dias de Leles Albuquerque, Liz Regina Silveira Barbosa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Ouvidor street: the hotbed of rumors in Rio de Janeiro by Machado de Assis
This article explores the association of Ouvidor Street with the production and propagation of rumors in the Machado chronicle. This connection is the result of the author's experience on the street, a literary place that reverberated in his writing. Firstly, I contextualize the relationship between Ouvidor and rumors, analyzing nine excerpts from chronicles in this regard. Next, I present the experience report of two Geographical Routes that approached Ouvidor as a Machado place through its protagonism in the chronicle, connecting the practice to tourism literature and promoting an interface with pedagogical tourism.
Copyright (c) 2026 Sheila Regina Alves Carvalho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Between readings and travels: reflections on tourism and leisure in libraries
A brief reflection on the relationships between Tourism, Leisure, and Libraries based on a Literature Review. This discussion delves into the symbolic nature of reading and traveling, and the redefinition of libraries as places of leisure and tourism through playfulness, cultural animation, and hospitality. Libraries, therefore, relate to leisure and tourism insofar as they are cultural spaces for leisure, potential tourist destinations, and inducers of leisure and tourism practices through their services and collections.
Copyright (c) 2026 Márcia Cavalcanti Moreira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The transposition of the nordic space to the hellenic space in the poem Le Runoïa, by Leconte de Lisle
This article discusses the poetic construction of the poem Le Runoïa, written by the Parnassian poet Leconte de Lisle, taking into account the preserved characteristics and those that have been modified considering the primary sources that served as basis for the poem’s construction. This study also analyzes the causes and effects of the displacement from the original Norse space of the Finnish myth that inspires the poem to the classical poetic space usually evoked in Parnassian poetry.
Copyright (c) 2024 Paulo Ricardo Mesquita https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Cartographies and landscapes in Brazilian and French literature
Copyright (c) 2024 Álvaro Silveira Faleiros, Ricardo Assis Gonçalves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Keep an eye on the landscape: the construction of space in “O tapa-olho do olho mágico” and “O japonês dos olhos redondos”, by Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares
Based on the hypothesis that Zulmira Tavares works in many of her fictions with the theater of falsification and truth through a game of looks and spaces combined with constant humor, the essay intends to investigate how the author operates the mapping of different forms of space in “O tapa-olho do olho mágico” and “O japonês dos olhos redondos”, both present in O japonês dos olhos redondos (Paz e Terra, 1982), as a way of undertaking an investigation into the “hidden meaning, the underlying meaning”. To this end, we will use as theoretical support mainly the considerations drawn by Gaston Bachelard about the house in La poétique de l’espace (Presses Universitaires de France, 1957); the discussions about thematic space raised by Bal in “Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative” (1985) and recovered by Brosseau (2008) when he debated the issue of space in Bukowski, and the concept of landscape worked by Michel Collot (2015).
Copyright (c) 2024 Samara Fernanda Buoso https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A river between two legs: the poetry of sony labou-tansias a border blurrer
This article intends to analyze the poem "L’Acte de Respirer" by Sony Labou-Tansi, from a geopoetic perspective. Based on the concept of "landscape" (COLLOT, 2015), the "body of the poem" and the "body in the poem" are thought of as instances mobilized by the poet, which generate zones of textual indetermination. The work is also based on authors such as Barthes (2004), Brandão (2007), and Paz (2012).
Copyright (c) 2024 Helena Bachur https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Inside the spiral of Saint-Denys Garneau: the poetry of Sony Labou-Tansi as a blurring of borders
This article intends to analyze the section entitled “De gris en plus noir”, from the collection “Regards et jeux dans l'espace”, by Saint-Denys Garneau, based on the text “Poésie, paysage et sensation” by Michel Collot, in which the author observes how the landscape can represent, in poetry, the sensations of the poem’s poetic persona. As a result of the “duality” present in some of Garneau’s poems, which was also underlined by Jean-Louis Major, a spiral movement was identified throughout this section, traced by elements of the nature, such as the wind and the fire. In order to achieve this goal, this text initially addresses some concepts of landscape and its poetic representation, and then it examines each of the poems in the section, identifying how these matters are produced within Garnelian writing.
Copyright (c) 2024 Camila Aparecida Ortega https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Between imagination, geography and literature: a subjective cartography of the city in The Lambs of the Abyss
The connections between imagination, geography and literature allow us to read the world in unique possibilities, particularly in unique works such as Os Cordeiros do Abismo, by Maria Luísa Ribeiro. In an attempt to analyze the cartography constructed by Leopoldo in Os Cordeiros do Abismo, he embarked on the construction of his procedures and actions in specific times and spaces. Thus, the possibility of reading the novel beyond the plot that structures it was verified, in which the imaginary revealed itself as a potential for interpreting banal subjects that populate the spaces of Brazilian cities.
Copyright (c) 2024 Júlio César Suzuki https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Interlocuções entre Geografia, Literatura e Arte: as possibilidades da interpretação literogeográfica
Copyright (c) 2024 Ricardo Assis Gonçalves, Eguimar Felicio Chaveiro; Júlio César Suzuki; Benjamim Pereira Vilela https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Geografia, Literatura e Arte: diálogos possíveis, debates necessários
Copyright (c) 2024 Eguimar Felicio Chaveiro, Ricardo Assis Gonçalves; Júlio César Suzuki; Benjamim Pereira Vilela https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Narratives of work and socio-environmental resistance in the Canudos settlement in Goiás
This article aims to present the conflicts and socio-environmental resistance in the context of the settlers' work in the Canudos Rural Settlement Project - Palmeiras de Goiás/GO. Participant observation was the methodology used for insertion into the daily life of the settlement. The results reveal a process of transformation of land use in the settlement plots with the introduction of grain agriculture for export with direct consequences for families, as well as the possibilities of socio-environmental resistance and conservation of the Cerrado in the context of agroecology.
Copyright (c) 2024 Valdir Specian, Eguimar Felício Chaveiro, Fernando Uhlmann Soares https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Bridge House and the empty nestle: the geographic aspects in the poetry of Cora Coralina and Leodegaria de Jesus
This article came from research from an analysis of four poems book that intend not just trace a parallel between geography and literature, but also identify symbols of the geographic space in Cora Coralina’s and Leodegaria de Jesus’ poetry, two female poetries who lived in the twenty century Cidade de Goiás and were head autor for their literary contribution that shown a lot of city and special aspects where they lived. This tittle remains to symbols used in their poems that shown the feelings for the Cidade de Goiás. This article also wants to identify the influence of the literature in the living space, gazing the Cora Coralina’s Museum and the book store “Leodegaria de Jesus”, respectively a heritage of the most known writer in Goiás and a tribute for the first woman who wrote a poetry book in the state. This study use the phenomenology point of view and analyses space symbols to complain its structure.
Copyright (c) 2024 pedro arthur pedreira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The existential cartography of rural youth
The present work aims to present a bibliographic review on "Existential Cartography" and "Rural Youth". It a ims to think about rural youth from existential cartography. This discussion is an integral part of the doctoral thesis, “Cartography of rural youth: an investigation in the municipality of Rio Verde-GO . (In progress), therefore, we seek to present a theoretic al discussion about the theme, still under construction. For this purpose, national and internationa l bibliographies were used, using geographic science in the agrarian line and rural sociology from several universities.
Copyright (c) 2024 Franciane Prado Gonçalves, Juliana Abadia do Prado Soares https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Everyday life in the production space: Rhythmanalysis as a proposal
Ritmananalysis, presented as the understanding of the rhythms of life, through the understanding of the dialectic of durations, is being presented as a possible method-theory of interpreting the modernity that, in Henri Lefebvre, brings elements that are treated as abstract, but that is part of the materiality of reality through everyday life, seen as the guiding thread for understanding life. It is constantly evolving, it is where gestures, habits, speeches, political projects are introduced. It is in everyday life that space is produced by sensitive, artistic and cultural men
Copyright (c) 2024 Hemily Sued Alves Costa, Peixinho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Field notebooks, experiences of free narratives
Over two years, several fieldworks were carried out in the Kalunga Quilombola Territory (GO), in order to comprehend, document and register the different fire management, their motivations, conflicts and current situation. Here, I bring field notebooks, photographed perceptions and a free narrative.
Copyright (c) 2024 Nádia Malena Moda, Ana Carla dos Santos, Silvia Laine Borges Lúcio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Challenged teaching work: Concepts of schooling in dispute in the territory of the rural school in Goiás
The article deals with the meanings of schooling in rural areas, in the municipality of Goiás. We seek to reveal the conceptions of schooling in the school's territory, based on the teachers' speech, on systematic observations and on the links and tensions between the structural and conjunctural determinations of the current Brazilian moment, in their relationship with the social dynamics of capitalism. During the participatory research (2018-2022) we identified four competing conceptions of schooling in the school territory, which intersect in the fabrics of political culture, rural education and new social movements. The theoretical references that give support to the research are Bourdieu (1998), Almeida (2009; 2018), Souza (2018), Silva (2018) and Fernandes (2018).
Copyright (c) 2024 Rosivaldo Almeida Almeida, Carolina https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Geoliterature in Redenir dos Santos: a look at the arraiano territory
Arraias, um portal para o além, a fictional work by Redenir dos Santos, brings a narrative that seems fantastic to us, but which the author categorically claims to discuss real facts. At the same time, it discusses historical and geographical events that were decisive for the current formation of the territory of Arraias, a municipality in the State of Tocantins. Around the family saga of the boy Deco, Redenir manages to characterize the subjects and their imaginaries, the landscapes and places of everyday of Arraia’s citizens, leaving one of the best testimonies, in prose, of the social, symbolic and cultural realities of the territory of the southeast of Tocantins. Keywords: Geography. Literature. Arraias/TO.
Copyright (c) 2024 Domingos da Costa Rodrigues da Costa Rodrigues https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Beyond the Northeast: the dissemination of cordel and forró literature in brazilian territory
The authors propose to talk about cordelista art, forró and tourism, because the Northeast is the land of great artists, has great poets and the greatest comedians, is land of great writers and great cordelistas. This theoretical essay has the general objective of presenting the diffusion of cordel and forró literature in the Brazilian regions, highlighting the existing links between tourism, geography, culture and literature and the potential contribution of two intangible cultural heritages intangibles in from Brazil: cordel and forró for cultural tourism. The proposal configures an initial effort in relation to the mapping of literary tourism of cordel and forró in the Brazilian territory and invites reflections on the importance of diversifying the tourist offer in favor of rescuing, strengthening and preserving the northeastern and Brazilian culture.
Copyright (c) 2024 Jammilly Mikaela Fagundes Brandão, Rejane Maria de Araújo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Iconicidade imediata e mediada no ensino e na aprendizagem da Geografia: relevâncias da práxis da Escola Pluricultural Odé Kayode
The present study, based on the philosophy postulated by C. S. Peirce, demonstrates aspects of cognitive semiotics, that is, levels of semiosis referenced as: iconicity, indicial and symbolic. Two practices of Geography teaching were analyzed to illustrate examples and possible effects of these semioses. The learning object of this science urges semeiosis based on visual mediation and that values iconicity over symbolic replications. The praxis of the Odé Kayodê Pluricultural School, sustained by the pluricultural bias, as opposed to the model plastered in the symbolic argumental semiosis conveyed by the SEE-SP Media Center, exemplifies more assertive expectations for education
Copyright (c) 2024 Adriana Campelo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0