Hermilo Borba Filho: uma poética da violência

ResumoEste artigo trabalha a violência institucionalizada em dois contos do escritor pernambucano Hermilo Borba Filho. A personagem Zumba é a vítima que é objeto da re- pressão policial, com requintes de crueldade. O objetivo é mostrar como se processa este tema, através de uma metodologia que ressalta a memória e os aspectos da cultura popu- lar, sob um enfoque de estudiosos como Bauman, Halbwachs, Maffesoli, Foucault, Bosi e outros.Palavras-chaveViolência, Repressão, Cultura popular, Memória

On Booze: a representation of The Roaring Twenties in the great Gatsby

Fitzgerald is considered by many to be the spokesperson of the 1920’s post-World War I, offering his readers a distinctive look into the Golden Age of the U.S.A.. This article focuses on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The great Gatsby (2001) and its representation and criticism of the historical context in which author and novel are inserted: the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties of the United States of America. For this purpose, our critical framework is based on Bloom’s (2006) and Heise’s (2001) studies on the subject, targeting a pertinent dialogue with Fitzgerald’ s work. As a result of our articulation between the critical framework and the corpus, we were able to recognize how the American author managed to express in his work a keen perception of the social conventions and the morals of the Jazz Age, of both the overt (the parties and the ostentation) and the covert aspects (the emptiness of that society and the unspoken post-war dread) of his time

O PAÍS INVISÍVEL: UMA ANÁLISE DO UNIVERSO DISTÓPICO DE A SEGUNDA PÁTRIA, DE MINGUEL SANCHES NETO

O presente artigo discorre sobre um gênero particular de distopia na literatura, isto é, a história alternativa: obras de ficção que reescrevem acontecimentos importantes do passado, narrando-os de forma divergente da historiografia, a fim de promover uma problematização da própria história que é reescrita, assim como das ideias que permeiam a sociedade no momento e lugar referidos. A partir da análise do romance A segunda pátria, de Miguel Sanches Neto (2015), busca-se identificar os elementos criticamente ressaltados pela narrativa, em especial no que se refere ao Brasil recriado nessa história alternativa, em como traços dele poderiam ser encontrados no outro Brasil que seguiu o curso real da história, permanecendo apenas não notados

Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network

International audienceThe shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impediment and the biodiversity crisis are widely recognized, highlighting the urgent need for reliable taxonomic data. Over the past decade, numerous countries worldwide have devoted considerable effort to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), which called for the preparation of a working list of all known plant species by 2010 and an online world Flora by 2020. Brazil is a megadiverse country, home to more of the world's known plant species than any other country. Despite that, Flora Brasiliensis, concluded in 1906, was the last comprehensive treatment of the Brazilian flora. The lack of accurate estimates of the number of species of algae, fungi, and plants occurring in Brazil contributes to the prevailing taxonomic impediment and delays progress towards the GSPC targets. Over the past 12 years, a legion of taxonomists motivated to meet Target 1 of the GSPC, worked together to gather and integrate knowledge on the algal, plant, and fungal diversity of Brazil. Overall, a team of about 980 taxonomists joined efforts in a highly collaborative project that used cybertaxonomy to prepare an updated Flora of Brazil, showing the power of scientific collaboration to reach ambitious goals. This paper presents an overview of the Brazilian Flora 2020 and provides taxonomic and spatial updates on the algae, fungi, and plants found in one of the world's most biodiverse countries. We further identify collection gaps and summarize future goals that extend beyond 2020. Our results show that Brazil is home to 46,975 native species of algae, fungi, and plants, of which 19,669 are endemic to the country. The data compiled to date suggests that the Atlantic Rainforest might be the most diverse Brazilian domain for all plant groups except gymnosperms, which are most diverse in the Amazon. However, scientific knowledge of Brazilian diversity is still unequally distributed, with the Atlantic Rainforest and the Cerrado being the most intensively sampled and studied biomes in the country. In times of “scientific reductionism”, with botanical and mycological sciences suffering pervasive depreciation in recent decades, the first online Flora of Brazil 2020 significantly enhanced the quality and quantity of taxonomic data available for algae, fungi, and plants from Brazil. This project also made all the information freely available online, providing a firm foundation for future research and for the management, conservation, and sustainable use of the Brazilian funga and flora