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Rio's Urban Peripheries Literary Festival Celebrates Brazilian Black Feminist Pioneers
By Pilar Boyero in partnership with RioOnWatch.org
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Rio’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival (FLUP), which has taken place since 2012 across the city’s favelas and public spaces, designed its 2020 edition in homage to two “foundational black Brazilian female authors,” Carolina Maria de Jesus and Lélia Gonzalez. Maria de Jesus’s 1960 Child of the Dark chronicles daily life in a favela of São Paulo, while Gonzalez was an influential anthropologist, PUC-Rio professor, political activist, and theorist from the 1960s through the 1990s. She is considered one of the main—if not the number one—black feminists in Brazil.
By Pilar Boyero in partnership with RioOnWatch.org
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Rio’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival (FLUP), which has taken place since 2012 across the city’s favelas and public spaces, designed its 2020 edition in homage to two “foundational black Brazilian female authors,” Carolina Maria de Jesus and Lélia Gonzalez. Maria de Jesus’s 1960 Child of the Dark chronicles daily life in a favela of São Paulo, while Gonzalez was an influential anthropologist, PUC-Rio professor, political activist, and theorist from the 1960s through the 1990s. She is considered one of the main—if not the number one—black feminists in Brazil.
The 34th edition of the Bienal de São Paulo explores "calls to resilience"
The 34th edition of the Bienal de São Paulo—called
Faz Escuro Mas Eu Canto (
Though It’s Dark, I Still Sing)—draws its title from lines in a 1962 poem by the Brazilian writer Thiago de Mello that aimed to send a message of hope in a time of political turmoil in Brazil. According to the curator Paulo Miyada, the work
Madrugada Componesa (
Peasant Dawn) was written in “a time with some promises of transformation, nurtured by progressist policies and some desire for the expansion of basic rights, such as education”. But then the horizon changed, “Brazil had been torn asunder by a military coup supported by part of the citizenry, a dictatorship was being consolidated”, and the poem was published “more as a call to resilience”, when there were few signs of any dawn ahead.
The 34th edition of the Bienal de São Paulo—called
Faz Escuro Mas Eu Canto (
Though It’s Dark, I Still Sing)—draws its title from lines in a 1962 poem by the Brazilian writer Thiago de Mello that aimed to send a message of hope in a time of political turmoil in Brazil. According to the curator Paulo Miyada, the work
Madrugada Componesa (
Peasant Dawn) was written in “a time with some promises of transformation, nurtured by progressist policies and some desire for the expansion of basic rights, such as education”. But then the horizon changed, “Brazil had been torn asunder by a military coup supported by part of the citizenry, a dictatorship was being consolidated”, and the poem was published “more as a call to resilience”, when there were few signs of any dawn ahead.
All Good Things Must Begin | Lapham's Quarterly
On the self-preservation, testimonies, and solace found in the diaries of black women writers.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Woman Writing, by Zabitz. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration, 1975.
I shall be a best-selling author. After Imago each of my books will be on the best seller lists of
LAT,
PW,
WP, etc. My books will be read by millions of people. I will buy a beautiful home in an excellent neighborhood. I will help poor black youngsters broaden their horizons. I will find a way to do this. So be it.
On the self-preservation, testimonies, and solace found in the diaries of black women writers.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Woman Writing, by Zabitz. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration, 1975.
I shall be a best-selling author. After Imago each of my books will be on the best seller lists of
LAT,
PW,
WP, etc. My books will be read by millions of people. I will buy a beautiful home in an excellent neighborhood. I will help poor black youngsters broaden their horizons. I will find a way to do this. So be it.
