Feliz Ano Novo! Happy New Year!
The Women of the Brown Atlantic team wishes a happy, successful and healthy 2020 to all our readers out there!
We are delighted to announce that Dr Rosane Carneiro from King’s College London has joined our team as the Memory Residency Holder 2020. Dr Carneiro will spend a month at the University of Exeter doing research and networking with colleagues from Exeter. The Residency will also enable her to extend her collegial network in the South West through a visit to the Centre for Black Humanities at the University of Bristol.
During her stay at Exeter, she will pursue a research project dedicated to the theme: ‘Re-Colouring Stories Through Oral Memory in Água de Barrela (2015)’ by Eliana Alves Cruz. She will explore how the author uses her schizophrenic great-aunt’s oral memories to unveil her personal, family history, and Afro-Brazilian experience more broadly.
How can oral memories support the reconstruction of Afro-Brazilian history and challenge the paradigm of the archive?
This study contributes to the aims of the Women of the Brown Atlantic project as it questions the usefulness of the archive as a universalised metaphor for the storage of memory, and it explores alternative methodologies to reveal untold black stories in Brazil.
The Memory Residency with kickstart on 10 February 2020 and extend for a period of 30 days. Towards the end of the Residency, Dr Carneiro will offer a seminar on Cruz’s award winning historical novel. All are welcome to attend!
We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Dr Carneiro to Exeter and wish her all the best for her research time in the South West!
Good afternoon. What incredible research. My name is Adrian and I do research using the same novel book, I would like to know more about the material used in this research and if it would be possible to exchange emails with Professor Miss Carneiro.
Thank you very much in advance;
Adriana
Hello Adriana,
thank you so much for your comment. We are delighted to know that you find the research interesting! Please feel free to get in touch with Dr Carneiro directly on r.carneiro-ramos@exeter.ac.uk
I am sure she will be very happy to share her views on the book with you. Do you have any work that has been published on Água de Barrela?
Best wishes,
Ana