CALL FOR PAPERS
The Journal of Literatura, História e Memória, ISSN 1983-1498, Qualis B1, linked to the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE), published semiannually, has open calls for original and unpublished papers in order to integrate its next edition (v. 20, n. 36, 2024).
In each of its editions the journal is composed of two sections: a DOSSIER with a delimitated theme and a permanent SECTION, which receives submissions in a continuous flow, called “Pesquisa em Letras no contexto Latino-americano e Literatura, Ensino e Cultura”, which includes several papers derived from research and studies in the field of Literature.
DOSSIER: Times in friction: historical fiction overflows and transformations
A dive into an antiques chest, an old closet, a photo album, an archive. These are some of the many actions in which we put ourselves before a scattered set of objects, perspectives and feelings that we try to organize in order to give it a sense, be it a meaning or an interpretation, be it its links and directions. Embodying these organizing attitudes, historical fiction, as a literary genre, can be understood based on this tension between different eras and temporalities, according to Célia Fernández Prieto, in Poética de la novela histórica (1998). These relationships, in turn, are embodied in different discursive modalities (historical novel, historiographic metafiction, recent history novel, family or generational novel, etc.), manifestations of the same macro-genre (Mauro Cavaliere, As coordenadas da viagem do tempo, 2022).
The scope of the genre is expanded when we consider historical fiction as a discursive mode and system of reading and writing, which can be updated in each new production and reading. In the Brazilian case, from this perspective, some names emerge as paradigmatic, such as Silviano Santiago, Ana Miranda, Heloísa Maranhão, Assis Brasil, classic figures that were more recently joined by authors such as Micheliny Verunschk, Eliane Alvez Cruz, in a list that only tends to grow. In addition to novels, other genres and languages, such as comic books, use discursive procedures that allow them to be understood as historical fictions, as is the case with the works Angola Janga (2017) and Mukanda Tiodora (2022), by Marcelo D'Salete. These are works in which imagination and lines achieve political and aesthetic strength, based on historical research articulated by a narrative that will give substance, through drawing, to the non-verbalized aspects of history. Whatever the format, looking at History(ies) always provides clues both about how the era is understood and about the way in which it is narratively (re)figured and used, speaking of what troubles writers and readers.
This dossier aims to welcome works that consider historical fiction as a narrative power and in distension, as works that incorporate different relationships with historical discourse; research that deals with works that establish an ambiguous, hybrid and oscillating reading pact, taking the historiographical as an intertext and starting point, observing how the past emerges in the present with different rhythms and strength, which pasts are traditionally chosen to be presented; analysis of texts in which the historical and the fictional are combined, both as supplementation, supplantation, subversion and/or critical dialogue. It will also feature studies around works that can be thought of as autofiction, testimony and other self-writings, whenever the historical element can be understood as one of the main substrates of the narrative.
Organizers: Marilene Weinhardt (UFPR/CNPq) and Stanis D. Lacowicz (IFPR/Telêmaco Borba)
Submissions: until August 20, 2024.
