Também em nosso novo número: Em "Punks e sem-terra", Rodrigo Lopes de Barros traça a influência do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) em bandas de hardcore punk brasileiras atuantes nas décadas de 1990 e 2000, tais como Abuso Sonoro, Guerra de Classes, Point of No Return, Dead Fish.
Love seeing this in print! Thank you to @mlnjournal.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social and especially @victoriajane.bsky.social for getting this out into the world
MLN author Rodrigo Lopes de Barros has just released his film about the Brazilian poet Ricardo Aleixo.
“Ricardo Aleixo: Afro-Atlantic” is the winner of the Pierre Verger Award in Ethnographic Films by the Brazilian Anthropology Association. It has been screened widely. youtu.be/wGy8-EhXknM
Luke Bowe
MLN Journal
Great new project from @veritas44.bsky.social who guest edited our Italian issue last year.
Reti di Carta is a data visualization project that maps the transnational relationships organized and mediated by Italian American periodicals between 1890 and 1980: reti.stefanomorello.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Parenting offers intimate witness to another individual’s dynamic becoming. Heather Jerónimo offers a view of Spanish parenthood that goes beyond normative assumptions, toward a larger process of societal realization. Check out
@akkendrick.bsky.social's review in our most recent Hispanic issue.
In our recent Hispanic issue, Romina Wainberg reviews Nicolás Campisi’s The Return of the Contemporary (pub @upittpress.bsky.social) interrogating whether Latin American novels illustrate theory or produce it—and why that distinction matters today. Open access:
muse.jhu.edu/journal/128
Estão abertas, até 25 de maio, as inscrições para os simpósios temáticos da Abralic, em novembro de 2026, em Porto Alegre. Estou organizando este simpósio "Escritas do Capitaloceno" junto com os colegas João G. Dayrell (UFRGS) e André Cechinel (UFSC). Inscrevam-se em abralic.org.br e compartilhem
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Also in our new issue: @lmbowe.bsky.social uses ecocriticism to analyze this Francoist retelling of Armando Palacio Valdes' novel La aldea perdida, in which Asturias must sacrifice her lands and people to the destructive mining industry for the sake of the nation. OA via @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Também em nosso novo número: Em "Punks e sem-terra", Rodrigo Lopes de Barros traça a influência do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) em bandas de hardcore punk brasileiras atuantes nas décadas de 1990 e 2000, tais como Abuso Sonoro, Guerra de Classes, Point of No Return, Dead Fish.
Our 2026 Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social, is now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access.
The cover image is adapted from a 1985 poster for the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)-- check out the article by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros for full context.
