Presentation

Abstract

This issue of Revista Boitatá follows on from the previous one. In view of the significant amount of texts received by the initial proposal to deal with Indigenous and African Letters and Voices, we started to divide into two numbers. The previous one dealt with approaches to indigenous themes. What is now on the air has concentrated the perspective on African productions. Both excerpts say a lot about our contemporaneity, permeated by ethnic conflicts and regressive behaviors that defy the proclaimed positive effects of globalization. The world, in fact, has become broader in the sense mainly of the reach of transnational markets and digital communications, as well as population flows. Identities are reconfigured by new possibilities of displacement and territorialization, dispersing similar ones across the planet or even deteriorating local relations due to the contradictions of volatile capital and widespread insecurity.