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Literatura e Geografia:<br />

IV Encontro de Estudos sobre<br />

Ciências e Culturas<br />

- da Geografia das palavras<br />

à geografia das migrações<br />

Isabel Nena Patim (coord.) | Alcinda Cabral |<br />

Isabel Ponce de Leão | Fern<strong>and</strong>o Hilário (Orgs)<br />

O diálogo da Literatura com a Geografia não se esgota na<br />

imagética do espaço humano e/ou natural, nem nos contextos<br />

e referências literários — urbanos ou rurais, regionais ou<br />

nacionais, naturais ou artificiais. Opera-se, também, através de<br />

princípios estéticos, políticos e sociais que aludem e evocam<br />

terra, lugar e espaço. Termos como natureza, lugar, sítio, território,<br />

fronteira, distância, norte, sul, este, oeste, pátria, país ou<br />

casa, por exemplo, codificam, muitas vezes, sistemas de valores<br />

concorrentes entre si. O uso disciplinar destes termos contribui<br />

concomitantemente para a pluralidade de significações.<br />

Assim, para os geógrafos, por exemplo, sítiosituação à relação<br />

entre essa posição e outros elementos. Por outro lado, os críticos<br />

literários interessados na teoria da comunicação usam o<br />

termo sítio para se referirem à tecnologia de expressão, o que<br />

permite que a página e o ecrã, por exemplo, sejam lidos como<br />

variedades de formato paisagístico.<br />

Os diversos movimentos transnacionais e as migrações contribuíram,<br />

em geral, para a renegociação das noções de território<br />

nacional e de identidade migrante. Os movimentos migrantes<br />

acabaram por originar novas cartografias dos territórios. Do<br />

mesmo modo, as construções literárias das geografias das migrações<br />

reconfiguram, por vezes, as questões de identidade.<br />

A literatura não se esgota na abordagem histórico-cultural.<br />

Pela sua dimensão poético-literária, ela suscita a construção de<br />

outros mundos e ‘ultrapassa fronteiras’. A literatura, entendida<br />

como produto cultural, permite-nos descobrir a geografia das<br />

palavras e a geografia das migrações.<br />

<strong>UFP</strong> PUblICATIOnS 151<br />

Literatura e Geografia:<br />

IV Encontro de Estudos sobre<br />

Ciências e Culturas<br />

- da Geografia das palavras<br />

à geografia das migrações<br />

Isabel Nena Patim (coord.) | Alcinda Cabral |<br />

Isabel Ponce de Leão | Fern<strong>and</strong>o Hilário (Orgs)<br />

The dialogue between Literature <strong>and</strong> Geography does not end<br />

in <strong>the</strong> imagery of <strong>the</strong> human <strong>and</strong>/or natural space, nor in literary<br />

contexts <strong>and</strong> references - urban or rural, regional or national,<br />

natural or artificial. It also reaches into aes<strong>the</strong>tic, political <strong>and</strong><br />

social principles, that allude to <strong>and</strong> evoke l<strong>and</strong>, place <strong>and</strong> space.<br />

Terms such as nature, place, location, territory, frontier, distance,<br />

north, south, east, west, homel<strong>and</strong>, country or home, for example,<br />

often codify value systems that compete with one ano<strong>the</strong>r. The<br />

use of <strong>the</strong>se terms within <strong>the</strong> field contributes simultaneously<br />

to <strong>the</strong> plurality of meanings. Thus, for geographers for example,<br />

place/location in <strong>the</strong> relationship between that position <strong>and</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r elements. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r h<strong>and</strong>, literary critics interested in<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory of communication use <strong>the</strong> term place to refer to <strong>the</strong><br />

technology of expression, which allows <strong>the</strong> page <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> screen,<br />

for example, to be read as geographical types.<br />

The various transnational movements <strong>and</strong> migrations generally<br />

contributed to <strong>the</strong> renegotiation of <strong>the</strong> notions of national territory<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> migrating identity. Migrating movements have had <strong>the</strong><br />

effect of originating new territory mapping. In <strong>the</strong> same way,<br />

literary constructions of migration geographies sometimes reconfigure<br />

issues of identity. Literature does not end at <strong>the</strong> historical/<br />

cultural approach. Due to its poetic/literary dimension, it leads to<br />

<strong>the</strong> construction of o<strong>the</strong>r worlds <strong>and</strong> ‘crosses frontiers’. Literature,<br />

understood as a cultural construct, allows us to discover <strong>the</strong><br />

geography of words <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> geography of <strong>the</strong> migrations.<br />

This volume collects <strong>the</strong> communications presented in <strong>the</strong> 4th<br />

Research Meeting on Sciences <strong>and</strong> Cultures. Focusing on inter- <strong>and</strong><br />

intra-disciplinary aims which promote dialogue <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> exploration<br />

of relationships between literary <strong>and</strong> geographical knowledge<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> subsequent study of formation of cultural attitudes in<br />

<strong>the</strong>se domains, <strong>the</strong> Meeting reflected a qualitative participation<br />

of investigators in <strong>the</strong> areas Theory of Literature <strong>and</strong> Compared<br />

Literature, Geography, Anthropology, Migrations, Museology,<br />

Legal Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, European<br />

Research, Education Sciences, Social Psychology, Sociology,<br />

Theology, Philosophy, Bioethics, Communication Sciences, Translation,<br />

Advertising <strong>and</strong> Cinema Studies.

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