Hey literary scholars! Remember fun syllabus queries on the other site back in the day? Can we try it here? The literature of extraction: a syllabus. Please and thank you.
Thomaz Amancio
@thomazamancio.bsky.social
A fool abroad. Assistant professor @ Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley.
Fui numa livraria hoje que tinha Anne Carson na prateleira "autores de Campinas" e Darcy Ribeiro em "vozes negras"
Em tempos de Odisseia, aqui vai esta versão que fiz em 2022, uma Odisseia ao contrário - Aiéssido. Saiu na Folha @folha.com
MAKING FUN OF THE GUY WHO JUST INVENTED WRITING: jeff thinks trees can talk lmao
Book's now in pre-sale! The US cover was also revealed. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vastla...
Vastlands: The Crossing
“A veritable linguistic tour de force.” —Mario Vargas Llosa One of the greatest works of Latin American literature ever written and an epic story o...
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Thomaz Amancio@thomazamancio.bsky.social · 4mo agoCover for the much, much waited new English translation of Grande Sertão: Veredas by Alison Entrekin. Out January 2027.
@seanobrien.bsky.social and I have edited a special issue of CLCWeb titled “Keywords for Value and Culture”. Across 34 essays, it explores the shared conceptual terrain between value-form theory and aesthetic theory. The full issue is available open access here: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol27...
Much incredible stuff in here! "Keywords for Value and Culture" edited by @seanobrien.bsky.social and @thomaswaller.bsky.social ❤️🔥
comparative cultural studies comparative literature media studies digital humanities | Vol 27 | Iss 1
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Uma das grandes figuras dos estudos literários brasileiros dos últimos 50 anos. Pesquisadora essencial.
a@epistoleira.bsky.social · 2mo agoAcabei de receber a notícia da partida da professora Telê Ancona Lopez – minha maior referência nos estudos de Mário de Andrade. Relembrando com carinho todas as vezes que tive a oportunidade de ver e ouvir a prof. Na primeira vez, ela recitando “Meditação sobre o Tietê“ no meu 1º ano de graduação.
Out today in PMLA: my essay on the affordances of the maritime as an analytical category & citational system (rather than ecorepresentative motif). Beyond thrilled that poets like Camilo Pessanha, Fernando Sylvan and Yao Feng will now have their day in PMLA alongside Mallarmé, Pessoa, & Camões 🌊
Sailing the Franco-Portuguese Seas in Colonial Macau: A Blue Poetics of Citation in Camilo Pessanha’s Clepsydra | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Sailing the Franco-Portuguese Seas in Colonial Macau: A Blue Poetics of Citation in Camilo Pessanha’s Clepsydra - Volume 141 Issue 1
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Truly a book I have been waiting to read for years. Very excited about this.
Ericka Beckman@erickabeckman.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.
Such a wonderful meditation on friendship and the things we can share, with all the love and all the pain.
Daniela Gutiérrez Flores@danielagtzf.bsky.social · 4mo agowww.guernicamag.com/three-pages-... Today marks a year since Alexandra died. In her memory I will take little sips of wine, read out loud and slowly, and order dessert. I miss her more than I would have thought.
finalmente uma boa notícia! reeditaram a obra do cruz e sousa! o maior porta simbolista do brasil é um homem negro catarinense, o que claramente bagunça narrativas nacionais e locais (talvez por isso ele passou tanto tempo esquecido) www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/tom-...
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Just found out through @theuntranslated.bsky.social that Berthold Zilly's *also* long waited translation to German is *also* coming out next January. Incredible: Großer Sertão: Querungen - João Guimarães Rosa | S. Fischer Verlage share.google/pkXLQx95Mhx3...
Thomaz Amancio@thomazamancio.bsky.social · 4mo agoCover for the much, much waited new English translation of Grande Sertão: Veredas by Alison Entrekin. Out January 2027.
Friends, colleagues: I'm happy to share I've accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in Luso-Brazilian Studies in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. I'm so excited to join this community, looking forward to teaching and learning there!
J. H. Prynne (24 June 1936 – 22 April 2026) "as the light will allow"
I’m excited to go to Boston this week for a symposium on Monocultures at Tufts University. We mustn’t forget that there are more plantations today than ever before, and they continue to harm, people, places, and our planet.
Had a wonderful time with this amazing group of people yesterday. Truly exciting conversations that I hope to continue in the future.
Thomaz Amancio@thomazamancio.bsky.social · 5mo agoFriends in the Boston area: I'll be in Tufts in a few weeks for this symposium I organized with @isabelaf.bsky.social and a brilliant group of scholars. We have been engaged in these conversations for a few years and are excited to keep them going.
Sharing again for friends in the Boston area. Very excited about these cross-disciplinary conversations on the meanings of saudade/nostalgia/longing in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian world. Happening tomorrow!
Thomaz Amancio@thomazamancio.bsky.social · 5mo agoFriends in the Boston area: I'll be in Tufts in a few weeks for this symposium I organized with @isabelaf.bsky.social and a brilliant group of scholars. We have been engaged in these conversations for a few years and are excited to keep them going.
People throw the words "literary event" around a lot, but this is gonna be *the* literary translation event of next year, just nothing else could compare.
Thomaz Amancio@thomazamancio.bsky.social · 4mo agoCover for the much, much waited new English translation of Grande Sertão: Veredas by Alison Entrekin. Out January 2027.
People throw the words "literary event" around a lot, but this is gonna be *the* literary translation event of next year, just nothing else could compare.
Thomaz Amancio@thomazamancio.bsky.social · 4mo agoCover for the much, much waited new English translation of Grande Sertão: Veredas by Alison Entrekin. Out January 2027.
Cover for the much, much waited new English translation of Grande Sertão: Veredas by Alison Entrekin. Out January 2027.