Vol. 33 No. 69 (2026): Literature and Social Justice

Capa da Matraga 69

Guest editors:

Marcela Santos Brigida (UERJ) and Akanksha Mehta (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Published: 2026-09-20

Full Issue

Presentation

  • Between awareness and action: literature and social justice in a distracted age

    Marcela Santos Brigida, Akanksha Mehta
    357-365
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.99946

Literature Papers

  • “Nature” According to Emily Dickinson: Seeking Alternative Meanings to Mitigate the Climate Crisis

    Flavia Moreno de Marco
    366-377
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.96111

  • “The cold shadow of the hot freeway”: the city as colonial technology in Their Dogs Came with Them, by Helena María Viramontes

    Sabrina Pinheiro de Medeiros, Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues
    378-390
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.97676

  • The cracks that reveal the other: identity and gender in “Cell One”, by Chimamanda Adichie

    Conceição de Maria Corrêa Feitosa
    391-403
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.96235

  • Genealogy of the cicada: a reading of Murata Sayaka

    Fabio Pomponio Saldanha
    404-416
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.97327

  • A failed synecdoche: the heteronormative materialization of bodies in Eloghosa Osunde’s Vagabonds!

    Ruan Nunes Silva
    417-431
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.95308

  • “But Alice, I’m still so glad we were born”: A Search for the Beauty of Minimalism in Sally Rooney’s Fiction

    Português, Português
    432-445
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.97653

  • “The claim is the same as yours”: the reader’s place in Virginia Woolf’s political essas

    Lucas Leite Borba
    446-457
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.97754

  • Afro-Hispanic Identity And Migratory Experience: A Comparative Study Between El metro, by Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, and No hay país para negros, by Oscar Kem-mekah Kadzue

    Rogerio Mendes, Murielly Karla Diniz de Medeiros Macedo
    458-472
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.97715

  • Silenced Voices: Lima Barreto and Restorative Principles

    Tatiane Felipe Santana Bovolato
    473-484
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.96024

  • Brazilian rap and the intercessors

    Daniela Silva de Freitas
    485-498
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.97761

  • Questions and answers from a committed novel

    Lucas Bandeira de Melo Carvalho
    499-511
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.98154

  • Levites in Charge of the Ark of Culture: The Morant Bay Rebellion and Racial Justice among Eminent Victorians

    Jude V. Nixon
    512-533
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.97818

INTERVIEW/TESTIMONIAL

Reviews

  • Human Acts, by Han Kang

    Maria Eduarda Fernandes Maekawa
    542-545
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2026.95282