How do Brazilian novelists choose to narrate Brazilian history? By looking at historical novels across the 19th and 20th centuries, Professor Baialuna de Andrade will illustrate the ways in which contemporary Brazilian novelists increasingly reclaim the right to narrate history from traditionally silenced perspectives, moving away from Eurocentric frameworks.
Patrícia Baialuna de Andrade is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University and is a Fall 2024 Kennedy Center Faculty Research Fellow. She specializes in Brazilian literature and culture, focusing on how contemporary Brazilian literature portrays violence and oppression across different historical periods.
Part of the Kennedy Center's fall 2024 lecture series, "Legacies of Colonialism."