Overview
André Nascimento is a doctoral candidate in Romance Studies. His work focuses on Peace Studies, Afro-Diaspora, Indigenous Sovereignties, Political Economy, and Latin American literature and politics.
Academic Interests
Spanish – Tsotsil (Bats’i k’op) - Portuguese
Research Focus
Titled Molotov Democracies: Rebellious Politics in Latin American Fiction, André’s dissertation examines the relationship between antiwar tactics, democratic instability, and fiction in contemporary Latin America. To develop his arguments, he considers the dialogues between Mayan epistemology and political theory, queer and Afro-Argentinian zines and hip-hop, and Brazilian protest poetry. His work unites ethnographic research and literary criticism to demonstrate how literature builds communal responses and influences political decision-making in regions afflicted with paramilitary hostilities, racial capitalism, and economic inequalities.
André recently published Trincheira: ditadura, transgressão e literatura [Trench: Dictatorship, Transgression, and Literature] (Devires/Latin American Literary Review Press, 2023). His book observes the interplay of guerrilla warfare, social movements, and queer literature during the Brazilian dictatorship, asserting that political alliances were collective and popular in nature rather than actions of individuated categories.
His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and volumes such as Associations of the Arts of the Present - ASAP/Journal (2022), Extraprensa (2022), Cultural Perspectives (2022), Asian Diaspora Visual Cultures and the Americas (2022), and Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that Undo the Lusophone Atlantic (Routledge, 2019 - book chapter).