XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association

Entre-Between Book: Six Brazilian Immigrant Women Tell their Stories

Session Submission Type: Complete Panel

Abstract

Entre-Between Book: Six Brazilian Immigrant Women Tell their Stories
Cristiane Busato Smith

This panel discusses the project which resulted in the book "Entre-Between" (Kotter Editorial, 2023), a bilingual collection of thirty-five memoir essays written by six Brazilian immigrant women in the United States. For one year and a half, participants met weekly via zoom to practice memoir writing. Working within the genre of memoir enabled the authors to develop their writing skills and reflect on significant moments that marked their immigrant journeys. The essays share key issues about immigration such as identity, belonging, language, family, loss, hybridity, and memory. The title of the book gestures at the binary, the “entre-between”, condition which lies at the heart of the diasporic/migrant subject. This timely book provides a much-needed platform for Brazilian immigrant women to express their voices in the pluralistic tapestry of immigrants in the United States.

Sub Unit

• XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association

Individual Presentations

• Neither Here nor There: The In-Between Spaces of Migrant Memories, Sexual/Racial Identities, and Dreams of the Return - Cecilia MacDowell Santos, University of San Francisco

• Objectification of Brazilian Immigrant Women: The Colonialist Male Gaze - Leila Couceiro, Independent Scholar

• Between-Entre: Hybrid Identity and Belonging. - Regina Camargo, Independent Scholar/Researcher

• Immigration: Identity and Loss - Marina Gomes, Student

• Immigration and the Frontiers of Language - Luciana Fins, rio salado college

Chair

• Cristiane Busato Smith, MIT Global Shakespeares Lead Editor/ Osher at ASU lecturer

Session Organizer

• Cristiane Busato Smith, MIT Global Shakespeares Lead Editor/ Osher at ASU lecturer