Call for vol.17 - no. 34 - Literature and Publishing

Call for vol.17 no 34 - Submission deadline: October, 31th, 2024
Publication: April 2025 

THEME– Literature & Publishing: representations, publicity, circulation and literary mediations in multiple Portuguese language spaces
Guest Editors: Camila do Valle (UFRRJ) e Iris Maria da Costa Amâncio (UFF)

ABSTRACT:

This call proposes, above all, to convey a set of reflections about the importance of editorial histories for the literary field in the universe of the Portuguese language. It is a fact that literature establishes multiple interfaces with different environments and with different social actors. If we consider its systemic nature, as well theorized by Antonio Candido (1959), it becomes instigating to propose theoretical-critical formulations about the multiple forms of circulation of artistic texts – whether oral or written – as well as their representations through numerous gestures, voices and/or spellings. These media act as vehicular supports of the texts for the purposes of publicization/publication, that is, as the materials or "the forms that allow their reading, their hearing or their vision" and which, according to Roger Chartier (2002), "participate deeply in the construction of their meanings" (CHARTIER, 2002, p.62) concerning the contexts, cultures, aesthetics and purposes of these productions. It is important, therefore, for this issue 34 of Revista Abril, to receive scientific essays and reviews on the materialities of literary texts produced in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, with approaches to the historical-editorial trajectories related to artistic creation by the word; the impact of non-verbal and/or paratextual elements on the preparation of scenic or graphic works; the relations between literature, publishing and the processes of fictionalization of literary making; the critical reflections necessary for technical and aesthetic decisions or treatments on different literary materials; the tense and intertwined metatextual, intertextual and intermedia character of certain poetic and/or fictional materials internal or external to the works; in short, editing as a performative, collaborative and mediating factor of literary interfaces.