Brasil | Adriana Michele Camp

I was born in São Paulo and partially raised there. It is the only place that - for a brief moment - I felt I was "from". To some extent the decision to enter academia was an attempt to return, belatedly, circuitously, impossibly, to Brasil. It remains a touchstone for thinking the world.

“Off Screen, Unsighted, Unthought” Forma: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory. January, 2024.

“In-São-Paulo-Visible.” Revista Hispanica Moderna. Volume 73:1, Spring 2020: 39-59.

“Pueblo, Política, Policía.” In El estado de las cosas: cine latinoamericano en el nuevo milenio, edited by

Gabriela Coopertari and Carolina Sitnisky. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2015. (A first stab at working on José Padilha)

“Narratives and Deep Histories: Freyre, Arguedas, Roa Bastos, Rulfo.” In A Companion to Latin

American Culture and Literature, edited by Sara Castro-Klaren, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

“Reading Roberto Schwarz: Outside Out-of-Place Ideas.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (London) Vol 8, No 1, June 1999: 21-33. (Co-written with Horacio Legras)

"Black God, White Devil: Wishing, Speaking, Lying.” Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Berkeley) Vol 10, Spring 1999: 44-56. (My seminar paper on Glauber Rocha from an unforgettable graduate seminar taught by Frederic Jameson on the Deleuze's cinema books).

Canudos

My first encounter with Canudos was through Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo. Reading Os Sertões as we were also all reading Ranajit Guha in graduate school proved eye-opening. Meeting filmmaker Antonio Olavo and watching his Paixão e guerra no sertão de Canudos taught me what a counter-subalternizing perspective could look like.

Sentencing Canudos: Everydayness and Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil. University of Pittsburgh

Press, 2010.

“War of Canudos.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Latin American History. Published online June

2021.

“Everydayness and Subalternity.” South Atlantic Quarterly Vol 106, No. 1, December 2006: 21-38.

“Subalternizing Canudos.” Modern Language Notes. Vol 120, No. 2, March 2005: 355-382.

“The War of the End of the World or the end of ideology.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (London) Vol 13, No 2, 2004: 221-241. (Essentially a revised version of a seminar paper from an amazing graduate seminar taught by Alberto Moreiras on Mario Vargas Llosa).