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SUMMARY:The decolonization of images in contemporary Brazilian picturebook
 s - Claudia Mendes
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:As a young nation\, nearly as old as printed books\, Brazil ha
 s not so strict traditions and offers a fertile ground for experimentation
  and mixture\, which is said to be a distinctive feature of Brazilian cult
 ure. Progressively building its own cultural identity away from predominan
 tly Eurocentric models\, the fusion of local and global elements in a very
  particular way can be well observed in the evolution of visual discourses
  in picturebooks – rather than postmodern\, these books could be regarde
 d as postcolonial texts. \n\nWhen receiving the Hans Christian Andersen aw
 ard in 2014\, Brazilian illustrator Roger Mello declared: "We've overcome 
 Eurocentrism"\, speaking on behalf of Brazilian artists. Mello's victory i
 s a result not only of his own indisputable talent\, but also of a wider s
 ocial interest in broadening the horizons of picturebooks. In what context
  was it possible for him to explore and expand these books' codes\, being 
 at the same time local and global? By examining Mello's picturebooks and c
 ontextualising them in the Brazilian scenery\, we'll be stressing the cond
 itions that were influential in the process of developing an autonomous cu
 ltural identity in illustration\, both in terms of style and theme.\n\n*Cl
 audia Mendes* is a graphic designer\, MPhil in Visual Arts from Federal Un
 iversity of Rio de Janeiro\, and currently a visiting scholar at the Unive
 rsity of Cambridge\, as part of her PhD research on Brazilian contemporary
  picturebooks. Former fellow at International Youth Library\, where she wa
 s co-curator of an exhibition about Roger Mello’s works in 2011. She con
 tributes regularly to periodicals in the field of children’s literature\
 , being her most recent articles published in White Ravens (2013) about Br
 azilian contemporary and historical production\, and in a special issue of
  Bookbird (2014) dedicated to Roger Mello.\n
LOCATION:Homerton College\, Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PH\, MAB\, Bouli
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