Unibo Team Leader: Prof. Roberto Vecchi, Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures
The project aims to study the relationship between violence and cultural productions. Bringing together a group of Brazilian and international researchers working on the issue of "representation" of violence and the limits of its possibility, the purpose of this thematic project financed by FAPESP is to deepen the studies on violence and also to give contributions to literary theory and cultural studies. With emphasis on the twentieth century cultures and contexts, the research is focused on the phenomenon of representation / presentation of violence in literature in Brazil.
The project also includes researches on memory theory, on the relationship of literature, history, violence and law, the "representation / presentation" of the Shoah as a possible common theoretical topic, the "testimonio" in Latin America and autobiographical texts produced during the authoritarianism period of the military dictatorship in Brazil. The project assumes that in Brazil, during the last decades, a quantitative and qualitative change in the relationship between culture and violence has occurred.
Main research topics
Brazilian literature and violence
Literature of prisons
Literature and the Law
Literature and Authoritarianism
Literature and Exile
Literature and evil
Literature and Violence
Theory of Testimony
Coordinators
Márcio Seligmann-Silva (UNICAMP)
Francisco Foot Hardman (UNICAMP)
Jaime Ginzburg (USP)
Other participants
Ettore Finazzi-Agrò (Roma "La Sapienza")
Helmut Galle (USP)
Jeanne Marie Gagnebin (UNICAMP)
João Camillo Penna (UFRJ)
Karl Erik Schollhammer Letras (PUC-RJ)
Regina Dalcastagné (UNB)
Roberto Vecchi (UNIBO)
Sonia Roncador (University of Texas - Austin)
Vera Lins (UFRJ)
Rosana Kohl Bines (PUC-RJ)
Markus Lasch (UNIFESP)
Paloma Vidal (UNIFESP)