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Narrative and performative decolonial practices in literary festivals : for a comparative analysis of Festa Literária das Periferias (FLUP) and Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest)

Publication . Fracalanza, Laura; Araújo, Susana Isabel Arsénio Nunes Costa; Martínez Teixeiro, Alva; Vecchi, Roberto

This thesis is dedicated to the study of literary festivals, recognized as a widespread social and cultural phenomenon. In particular, it examines how this type of event has been organized in two different contexts with decolonial aims, namely in a Brazilian metropolis and in historical Palestine. The festivals in focus are FLUP, the Rio de Janeiro-based Festa Literária das Periferias, running since 2012, and PalFest, the Palestine-based Palestine Festival of Literature, running since 2008. The events, despite their differences, share a strong activist nature and overtly aim at combining literary discussions with political practices here addressed as “decolonial”. The objective of this research is at the same time to look at each festival individually, questioning how they reflect the dynamics in place in their respective literary fields, and to examine how their practices intersect and differ. As far as its structure is concerned, the thesis aims at creating a journey which moves across the festivals, the territories where they are organized, and the literary publications resulting from the events. It starts with a reflection on what festivals are, and how literary festivals can be studied; it then surveys the references that contributed to tracing the dialogue between a Palestinian and a Brazilian cultural event, before analyzing each festival in more depth; finally, it provides a comparative reading of two anthologies edited by the festivals’ organizers. Since both festivals give great importance to the act of moving through territories that are severely fragmented along colonial and/or socioeconomical divides – FLUP changes its location around the city of Rio de Janeiro every year, while PalFest travels across different cities in historical Palestine during the festival week –, this literary analysis is dedicated to the ways the festivals’ mobility is translated and represented in their respective published literature. Thus, FLUP’s anthology of short stories Eu me chamo Rio (2015), edited by Julio Ludemir and Ecio Salles, and PalFest’s tenth anniversary anthology This is Not a Border (2017), edited by Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton, are read together around the representation of a common topic in each: the collective means of transport, such as the bus, that allows authors and/or characters to travel across the same territories where the festivals organize their activities.

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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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COVID/BD/152002/2021