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II Congresso Internacional da ABRAPUIitself with more contemporary educational methods, such as criticalpedagogy. This is why stylistics should find a place in the Braziliancurriculum for learners of English language and literature.Literaturas de Língua InglesaShakespeare and Cesaire in a TempestProfa. Dra. Brenda Flanagan (Davidson College)The talk will explore the strategies Martinician Aime Cesaireemploys in A Tempest, his rewriting of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.We’ll explore the use of language and political history as waysof signifying difference, and thus, reconstructing a narrative ofconquest. Participants can purchase both A Tempest, and TheTempest through Amazon.com. Both texts are quite thin, and canbe read in a very short period.Looking for Orion: Literature at the Interface ofCosmopolitanism and TranslocationsProfa. Dra. Laura Izarra (USP)In Postcolonial Studies, issues of identity and narratives ofnation, migration, (dis)placement, location, cosmopolitanism andhybridization remain major paradigms. However, our understandingof the making and unmaking of individual, social and nationalidentities has changed over the last decades and has been thesource of cultural invention and aesthetic concerns for manywriters and artists. This lecture will propose Literature as anew kind of location in which intersecting rhetorics produce anunstable balance between making visible and skillfully maskingchanged subjectivities configured by diasporic mediations. TakingRowan Gillespie’s sculpture “Looking for Orion” as a metaphoricalstarting point, I will argue that Literature is a translocationconsisting of variously connected spaces of knowledge. I willalso discuss how that interconnection of spaces opens up alternativeways of literary representations that apprehend not only theinternal contradictions of modernization (Theodor Adorno andMax Horkheimer), but also other forms of unevenness that disclosespecific states of the mind and contest rationalization. Movingbeyond the edge of literary texts at the interface of language,painting, music, cinema and multimedia sources I would like to45