Call for issue 52 - Forms of oblivion and memory in the Luso-Brazilian literary space

Forms of oblivion and memory in the Luso-Brazilian literary space

Editors: Cândido Oliveira Martins (UCP-CEFH, Braga); Mônica Genelhu Fagundes (UFRJ)

Submission deadline: until December 31st, 2023.
Issue scheduled for: July 2024.

The journal Convergência Lusíada dedicates issue 52 (second semester of 2024) to the theme “Forms of oblivion and memory in the Luso-Brazilian literary space”. The dynamics of oblivion and memory profoundly characterize contemporary societies. Crossing languages and epistemological perspectives – Literature, other arts (such as Photography) and areas of knowledge such as History, Culture, Anthropology –, Memory Studies are now gaining particular importance all over the world. Between Memory and History, people and places are object of multiple writings of memory, post-memory or traumatic memory, through the validation of testimony and trauma, spaces of remembrance and ways of rewriting the past, but also of eroding and erasing it. In the operation of accessing and shaping the past, remembering and forgetting participate in equal measure.

Considering, in their complexity, the relationships between Memory and Oblivion, and the articulations between cultural memory, individual and collective memory, and their literary representations, we invite researchers to reflect on issues of the utmost relevance: Memory and History; memory typologies; places of memory; individual memories and collective memory; the truth of memory; the fictions of memory; the fragile power of memory; memory abuses; forms of oblivion; silence strategies; memory, oblivion and political implications; forgetting as a critical gesture; memory and identity; traumatic memory of torture; memory and dictatorship; disputes around memory; memory, oblivion and intergenerational dialogues; memory, oblivion and literary tradition; memory, oblivion and citation; memory, oblivion and digital preservation.

According to the profile of the journal, texts that address these and other related themes within the scope of Portuguese literature will be welcome, with possible dialogues with Brazilian literature or worldwide literature and also other arts.