PPGL - Literature Graduate Program

Introduction

The Graduate Program in Letters (PPGL) at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), established in 1987 by ordinance 1484/86, was one of the institution's first master's degree programs and first in northern region of Brazil in area of Linguistics and Literature. Our areas of concentration are mixed and combine studies in linguistics and literature. Since 2013, we have been offering master's and doctoral programs. Currently, the PPGL operates in an exclusive four-story building located on the Guamá Campus in Belém, state of Pará. It is the only one with a grade of 6.0 in the northern region in the last four-year evaluation (2017-2020).

The PPGL UFPA currently represents the main reference for Graduate Studies in area of Linguistics and Literature in the Amazon, a vast, heterogeneous region whose borders go beyond Brazilian territory. The region is made up of a plurality of subjects. According to the latest IBGE census (2022), the Brazilian Amazon alone is home to more than 17 million inhabitants, spread across large and small cities, large and small rural properties, riverbanks, indigenous lands, and quilombola remnants.

Featured Project - Literary Cartography of Immigration on Amazon

Learn about the research project "Literary Cartography of Immigration on Amazon," one of the featured projects in the UFPA Graduate Program in Literature and Literature, which contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This project focuses on analyzing literature linked to the foreign presence in the Amazon, addressing both immigrant authors or descendants of immigrants and writers who, even without a direct connection to immigration, portray in their works cultural influences of different nationalities, such as Japanese, American, English, Portuguese, Jewish, and Syrian Lebanese. The research is based on two main axes: authors whose family origins are linked to migratory flows to the region and those who address, in their works, the impacts and cross-cultural dialogues generated by these presences. The corpus of the study brings together names such as José Benedicto Cohen, Sultana Levy Rosenblatt, Marcos Serruya, Leão Pacífico Esaguy, Mady Benoliel Benzecry, Elias Salgado, Ilko Minev, Myriam Scotti, Rogel Samuel, Márcio Souza, Paulo Jacob, Milton Hatoum, Jorge Tufic, Fusako Tsunoda, among others.

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link.

Featured Project - Doing-with, Doing-others: Prosthetic Formulations of Testimony in Indigenous Literary Production

"Doing-with, Doing-others: Prosthetic Formulations of Testimony in Indigenous Literary Production" is one of the featured projects of the UFPA Graduate Program in Literature.

The project's main objective is to investigate the intersections between literature produced by Indigenous authors and expressions of testimony. The proposal is based on the understanding that these works reveal strong relational bonds and address fundamental identity and humanistic issues, reflecting experiences and themes deeply connected to the lives of these individuals.

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link.