Research Project: Poetry’s “Travel-Worthiness”: South America and Brazil Through the Eyes of English Language Poets

Authors

  • Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação University of Cambridge

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v19i1.3510

Abstract

This research project aims at analyzing how physical and mental
travels has helped poets to envision a new form of art and produce intercultural knowledge. Through a historical approach, I show the act of imagining a new land, outside the local culture, can be characterized as a transnational hybridization, articulating real and symbolic locales.

Author Biography

  • Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação, University of Cambridge

    Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação, Teaching Associate at The Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge, holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of São Paulo, where she also received a joint degree in Portuguese and English Studies. She is the author of a book on Northern Irish poetry, Exile, Home and City: The Poetic Architecture of Belfast (Humanitas, 2015). It was during her lectureship in English Language and Cultural Studies at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) that she started to examine more closely the portrayal of Brazil and Latin America in English-language poetry. In order to expand her research, Dr. Carvalho da Annunciação came to the Centre of Latin American Studies in April, 2014 as a visiting
    scholar and Portuguese teacher. In the course of the year, she helped to organize the exhibition “a token of concrete affection”. This celebrated the fifty-year anniversary of the first concrete poetry exhibition at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, which featured the Brazilian Noigandres group that was responsible for disseminating the movement in both the United Kingdom and Latin America. In April 2015, she was made a Teaching Associate at CLAS and a Senior Member at Robinson College and continues to research the Noigandres movement, tracing the intricate connections
    between Brazil, Latin America and Great Britain in Concrete Poetry. Her current research interests also include Brazilian and Latin American avant-garde, poetry and politics and new methodologies in language learning.

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Published

2017-11-17

Issue

Vol. 19 (2017): ABEI Journal 19

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Annunciação, V. C. da. (2017). Research Project: Poetry’s “Travel-Worthiness”: South America and Brazil Through the Eyes of English Language Poets. ABEI Journal, 19, 137-139. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v19i1.3510