VI Encontro Internacional de Literaturas, Histórias e Culturas Afro-Brasileiras e Africanas: narrativas e direitos humanos

Abstract

The articles gathered in this edition of the Proceedings of ÁFRICA BRASIL 2019 resulted from oral communications presented at the VI INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF AFRO-BRAZILIAN AND AFRICAN LITERATURES, HISTORY AND CULTURES: Narratives and Human Rights (NEPA/UESPI); VIII Colloquium of Afro-Brazilian and African Literature; V UESPI University Book Fair and II International Meeting of Afro-descendant and Indigenous Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean UESPI/ADHILAC Brazil, to be held on November 20, 21 and 22, 2019, provided moments of reflection and exchange of experiences and knowledge about Narratives and Human Rights, within the scope of interdisciplinary studies regarding the areas of literature, culture and history. The current Brazilian academic, social, and political context continues to demand a theoretical-reflexive reorientation to face the obstacles that arise from the imposition of new educational policies, whose actions have been guided unilaterally. This becomes evident in the budget cuts in various government areas, amid a serious public health crisis (pandemic – Coronavirus), economic, and political crisis that has been present for a considerable time. There is a setback in terms of the recognition of diversity as a value peculiar to Brazilian society and, consequently, of indigenous, African, and Afro-Brazilian cultural matrices. Disciplines such as Literature, History, Cultural Studies, Education and Teaching, Sociology, Philosophy, etc. gain increasing relevance in times of denialism, since it has become the mission of education and Human Rights to combat obscurantism in the area of ​​human sciences, reactivating the importance of the study of African, Afro-Brazilian, and indigenous history and culture, as provided for in the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Brazilian Education, especially in articles 26A and 79B.