About the Journal

Semi-annual publication of the Graduate Program in Letters of the Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Available under Open Access, with CC-BY license, the journal welcomes (a) articles of relevant contribution to scientific knowledge and critical debate in the area of Literary Studies, normally published in dossiers, (b) interviews aimed at discussing a relevant problem with an expert, and (c) reviews of dissemination and critical appreciation of recently published books in the area of Literary Studies. The interviews and reviews are done by professors/researchers invited by the Editorial Board.
The themes for the dossiers are chosen in line with the research areas of the Graduate Program in Literature (PPG in Letras), namely: (1) Representations and textualities, (2) Intermedialities and new artistic forms, and (3) Constructions and identity processes.

Announcements

Chamada de Artigos (CFP 2026.1): "A poesia brasileira dos anos 1950 a 1980 em sua multiplicidade"

2025-08-01

Esse dossiê da Terra Roxa e Outras Terras (v. 46 n.1), a ser publicado até junho de 2026, se propõe a explorar textos que tratem tanto da Poesia Concreta quanto da Geração Mimeógrafo. Acrescido a isso, acolheremos também trabalhos que abordem autores/as que vinham de anos anteriores e outros/as que surgiram nessas quatro décadas, ou se tornaram mais evidentes nelas.

Outras possibilidades:

  • estudo da canção brasileira do período, que se imiscui à poesia;
  • a poesia de autoria e/ou temática negra, de autoria e/ou temática feminina, de autoria e/ou temática homoafetiva; e
  • poemas que tragam como questão a ditadura cívico-militar de 1964-1985.

Submissão até 12 de dezembro de 2025.

Read more about Chamada de Artigos (CFP 2026.1): "A poesia brasileira dos anos 1950 a 1980 em sua multiplicidade"

Current Issue

Vol. 45 No. 2 (2025): Identity processes in Afro-Brazilian literature: problems and engagements
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This edition brings together contributions that fall under the heading "Identity Processes in Afro-Brazilian Literature: Problems and Engagements," composing a plural and critical overview of the relationships between literature, identity, resistance, and culture.

Published: 2025-12-11

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Artigos

  • Antiracist literary literacy: reflections on an investigative process

    Kelly Cristina Cândida de Souza, Andreia de Assis Ferreira
    9-20
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p9

  • Lima Barreto: the confessional nuisance

    Thiago de Melo Barbosa
    21-33
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p21

  • Black voices and women-resistance in "O crime do Cais do Valongo", by Eliana Alves Cruz

    Regilane Barbosa Maceno
    34-48
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p34

  • The maze-life and the captivities of Duzu-Querença: the space in “Duzu-Querença,” by Conceição Evaristo

    Gisana Karen Araújo Costa Lira, Tito Matias-Ferreira Júnior
    49-61
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p49

  • The writing of Black women and African world-sense in Mata Doce (2023), by Luciany Aparecida

    Jerson Oliveira Mendes Junior, Vitor Cei
    62-77
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p62

  • "A gente combinamos de não morrer": the heteroglossic discourse on conceição Evaristo’s short story

    Maria de Fátima Costa e Silva, Ana Clara Magalhães de Medeiros
    78-88
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p78

  • Literature for children: an afro-perspective on reading experiences

    Samara da Rosa Costa, Lucimar Rosa Dias
    89-100
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p89

  • The fragmentary narrative identity in Bildungsroman De onde eles vêm, by Jeferson Tenório

    Edson Ribeiro da Silva
    101-113
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p101

  • Inscritura and Escrevivência in Os Corpos e Obá Contemporânea (2005) by Helena do Sul

    Dênis Moura de Quadros
    114-126
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p114

  • Close encounters: “Connection” and Lu Ain-Zaila’s Diasporic Afrofuturism

    Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte
    127-140
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p127

  • Poetics of the wound and the cut: The black transvestigender embodiment of Luna Souto Ferreira

    Tallýz Santos Pereira
    141-155
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p141

  • “Quarto de despejo”: writing as estoicism

    André Pascoal
    156-168
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p156

  • The laughable upside-down world in Elisa Lucinda: the racial issue in focus

    Thiara Cruz de Oliveira, Michele Freire Schiffler
    169-179
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p169

  • How are black characters in children's literature being studied? Investigating categories of analysis

    Débora Cristina de Araujo
    180-194
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p180

  • The sacred bread of memory is the black body

    Paulo Benites, Júlio César Rodrigues Lima
    195-208
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p195

  • The The art of narration: convergences between the Benjaminian storyteller, african oral tradition and rap

    Catharina Viegas, Pedro Santos
    209-222
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2025vol45n2p209
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