Date:
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
CGIS South, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kacey Carter, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program
This paper focuses on how the Literatura Periférica movement has contributed to creating an inclusive public sphere and expanded notions of citizenship for marginalized Brazilians. The civic engagement that occurs at and stems from events within the movement known as saraus underscores the importance of democratic cultural production and calls into question the practices and tendencies of the national cultural industry.