Becoming Brazilian: Migrant Cultures in Contemporary Brazil

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Through analysis of contemporary texts, films, festivals, and music, this panel identifies the changing aesthetic representations of gender, sexuality, race, class, and ethnicity in Brazil and its diaspora. The geographies and spaces identified in these works highlight cultural trails created by the authors in their depictions of diverse Brazilian realities. Novels, films, festivals, and music serve as vehicles of reimagining the Brazilian nation, as well as reproducing distinct Brazilian identities, influenced by the new migratory landscape of self-discoveries. This panel aims to explore the differing processes of identity creation and representation of marginalized subjectivities through the study of the cultural production by and about migrants and immigrants in Brazil.

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizer

• Celia C Cordeiro, Bridgewater State University

Chair

• Celia C Cordeiro, Bridgewater State University

Discussant

• Sonia M Roncador, University of Texas/Austin

Individual Presentations

• Ester de Abreu and the Interpretation of Fado in the Southeast of Brazil (1950-70) - Celia C Cordeiro, Bridgewater State University

• The Romanies as the fourth Brazilian population cornerstone: the “Ciganos” of José de Melo Morais Filho - Mariana Sabino-Salazar, University of Texas at Austin

• Queering the Cordel: Trans Subjectivities in Brazilian Cordel Literature - Sarah E Nicholus, University of Texas at Austin

• Carnaval pan-americano: diálogo cultural hemisférico e brasilidade na chanchada "Carnaval Atlântida" - Daniela L Meireles