Call for Issue No. 56 - Hybridisms in contemporary Portuguese-Brazilian fiction

Hybridisms in contemporary Portuguese-Brazilian fiction
Guest editors: Paulo Alberto Sales (IFGoiano/UFG) e Jorge Vicente Valetim (UFSCar)

Submission deadline: until December 30th, 2025.
Issue scheduled for July 2026.

Recent artistic practices have been constituted from the perspective of imminence, that is, of what is close or about to happen. By placing itself outside of itself, this contemporary art highlights the insignificance of totalizing accounts in the face of a world in which grand narratives are no longer possible, a universe, in fact, also marked by disbelief in metanarratives that have been, in the postmodern context, delegitimized, as argued by Jean-François Lyotard (2006). For Canclini (2016), art that emerges from the here and now proceeds from the attraction of announcing something that can happen or, at least, can change. This perspective of art, and more specifically of literature, is present in the process of expansion beyond its own field, in which the binaries of reality versus fiction and truth versus simulacrum are blurred. In fact, the perspective of play is incorporated into the literary text, which, in turn, begins to assume other supports and other functions, resulting, as defined by Wander Melo Miranda (2014, p. 135-136), in “mutant forms.” In dialogue with Josefina Ludmer’s (2007) notion of post-autonomy, Wander Melo Miranda (2014) highlights that post-autonomous texts can no longer be read through established literary categories such as author, work, style, écriture, text, or meaning.

With these questions in mind, issue 56 of Convergência Lusíada periodical invites researchers and scholars to submit articles on the multiform manifestations of Luso-Brazilian narrative that present diverse forms of hybridity. Submissions are welcome on the articulations between fiction and self-writing (autobiography, autofiction, biography, biographeme, biofiction, letter, diary), or in the approximations between fiction and essay, fiction and history, fiction and other arts, among others.