The Narrares Journal invites the submission of proposals for Scientific Articles, Literary Texts, Reviews, Interviews, Scientific Initiation Articles, Artistic Essays, which deal with the theme of the dossier for the 2025 edition, V. 3, N.2.

“Thematic: Literature and Cinema of Resistance: memories, resistance and existences”

Organization:

Augusto Sarmento-Pantoja (UFPA)

João Pereira Loureiro Junior (UEAP)

Rainério dos Santos Lima (UFOPA)

Submission: until November 30, 2025.

Abstract: We will receive proposals for studies that analyze works of literature and/or cinema, independently, or at the interface between literature and cinema, that seek to reflect on various forms of resistance in the present time or in other times, seeking to debate literature and cinema as formulations of the cultural memory of historical events, such as dictatorships, wars, liberation conflicts, cultural, philosophical and artistic shifts. Proposals that reflect on fictional, documentary, and testimonial works that can be associated with the concepts of resistance and that can analyze, against the grain (Benjamin, 1994), the invisibility of the existence of historically subalternized social groups, bringing to light their possibility of telling their stories (SPIVAK, 2010), will be welcome. Contemporary studies on resistance are similar to decolonial, postcolonial, historical materialist, oral history, feminist, queer, cultural studies, comparative studies, ecotheory, among others. Alfredo Bosi (1996, 2002) makes it clear that art plays an important role in the process of making groups and processes of resistance visible, materialized through two forms of resistance, one thematic and the other immanent. However, he does not ignore the possibility of finding other forms. In a study on forms of resistance, I present another form of resistance, linked to the existence of historically subalternized social groups (Sarmento-Pantoja, 2022; 2024), such as women, black people, indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, people from terreiros, fishing communities, settlers, displaced people, people from villages, homeless people, among others. In this sense, the symposium seeks to bring together these multiple forms of making resistance visible in literature and cinema.

Keywords: Literature; Cinema; Resistance; Memory; Existences