Announcements

  • CALL FOR PAPERS - v. 36, n. 1 (jan. - mar. 2026) DOSSIER: Musical-literary relations in the brazilian repertoire

    2026-02-24

    CALL FOR PAPERS - v. 36, n. 1 (jan. - mar. 2027) DOSSIER: Musical-literary relations in the brazilian repertoire

     

    CHAMADA ALETRIA - v. 37, n. 1 (jan. - mar. 2027)

    Organizers:

    Andressa Nathanaildes (UFES)
    Cecília Nazaré de Lima (UFMG)
    Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira (UFMG)
    Thaïs Flores Nogueira Diniz (UFMG)

    Deadline for submission of proposals: June 24, 2026

     

    MUSICAL-LITERARY RELATIONS IN THE BRAZILIAN REPERTOIRE

    The transits and connections between Music and Literature, understood as distinct conceptual domains, frequently intersect, making the comparison between literary texts and musical compositions a provoking and promising topic of investigation. Among the reasons for the approximations established between music and literature is the fact that both develop over time and have sound as their material basis. The richness of their fields allows for numerous forms of interaction, both in artistic creation and in the apprehension of its meanings, which, consequently, take place in different types of approaches and methodologies of analysis. Even so, the three forms of interdisciplinarity in these areas of knowledge, as presented by educator Steven Paul Scher (1936–2004), seem to us to be a consistent basis that allows us to delimit and group research in this area more satisfactorily. In the first case, literature AND music, music and literature merge their musical and poetic texts to create the new product (e.g., song); in the second case, literature In music, the predominant media is music which, with its codes, can suggest, evoke, imitate and reproduce, among others, formal and structural characteristics of literature (e.g., symphonic poem); in the third case, literature is the dominant media, which exclusively with its codes will have this function of evoking, suggesting, reproducing characteristics of musical art (e.g., Jazz poetry).

    These and other connections and musical interpretative processes brought about by works characterized as ekphrases (Siglind Bruhn), transcreations (Haroldo de Campos) and exchanges lead us to symbolic exchanges and possibilities of performance.

    The differential that we intend to give to this call is the repertoire focused on national products, produced by Brazilian artists, without, however, delimitation of themes, genres, styles or eras represented by the authors or works researched. In the universe of song, for example, we expect to receive reflections from the field of popular music, chamber music, and also from the fusion of the two. In literature, we intend to bring together the research that highlights not only the already established Brazilian authors who used music in its expressive forms, whether in prose or poetry, such as Machado de Assis, Manuel Bandeira, Mário Quintana, but also new names and the particular ways in which they used music in their writings. Regarding the expression of literature in music, we intend to highlight the analyses and reflections on Brazilian instrumental pieces that were inspired by literary texts, focusing on the ways found by composers to refer to these literary texts through their own musical codes.

    Thus, by proposing for this volume the congregation of studies that discuss products, processes, methodologies and concepts in the field of interdisciplinarity between literature and music based on literary and musical products produced exclusively by Brazilian artists, we will take an important step in the organization of a vast national repertoire that will serve as a subsidy for future research in this area.

    Read more about CALL FOR PAPERS - v. 36, n. 1 (jan. - mar. 2026) DOSSIER: Musical-literary relations in the brazilian repertoire

  • CALL FOR PAPERS – ALETRIA v. 36, n. 4 (2026) DOSSIER: Boundaries of Fictionality in Contemporary Narrative (2000-2025)

    2025-09-08

    CHAMADA ALETRIA - v. 36, n. 4 (out.-dez. 2026)

    Editors: 

    Kelvin Falcão Klein (Universidade Federal do Estado Rio de Janeiro)
    Ligia Gonçalves Diniz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
    Luciene Almeida de Azevedo (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

    Submission deadline: March 04, 2026

    Boundaries of Fictionality in Contemporary Narrative (2000-2025)

    Responding to the claim that the modern novel “discovered fiction” (Gallagher, 2006, p. 337), medievalist Julie Orlemanski (2019, p. 247) questions the conflation of the “concept” and the “experience” of fictionality and proposes instead a “comparative poetics of fiction.” In her account, fiction emerges as a “demarcatory phenomenon”: we call discourses fictional insofar as they deliberately suspend any binding commitment to truth.

    The definition of truth, in turn, is neither transhistorical nor ahistorical. Rather, it is constituted within interpretive communities, which establish its parameters in contingent and mutable ways and draw on languages as heterogeneous as history and common sense, philosophy and religious doctrine, science, or the performative efficacy of speech acts.

    Orlemanski’s formulation thus preserves the modern distinction between fiction and falsehood or error, while leaving open the discursive contexts in which fictionality is negotiated. This elasticity enables us to reflect not only upon pre- and extra-modern experiences of the fictional but also, by extension, on the very conventions of truth operative within specific cultural configurations.

    From this perspective, we ask: what does the contemporary proliferation of literary forms that unsettle the boundaries of factual truth—long considered the benchmark of modern fictionality—reveal about both the possibilities of fiction and the regime of truth in which we are situated?

    In a related sense, given the emphasis on biographical and social realities as frameworks of present-day narrative practices, we inquire into what experiences may be curtailed by the relative waning of interest in narratives of invention.

    Among other possible lines of enquiry, this dossier invites contributions engaging with theoretical perspectives on the contemporary status of fictionality, as well as investigations into:

    • hybrid forms at the intersection of fiction and non-fiction: life writing, essay, chronicle;
    • the presence of the “real” in literature and the arts;
    • reconfigurations of the novel and the short story;
    • practices that interrogate authorship, narration, and reading;
    • dialogues between fiction, memory, and the archive;
    • regimes of truth and fictionality;
    • autofiction and authenticity in the age of the truth crisis.
    Read more about CALL FOR PAPERS – ALETRIA v. 36, n. 4 (2026) DOSSIER: Boundaries of Fictionality in Contemporary Narrative (2000-2025)