Lourdes Teodoro
| Lourdes Teodoro | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Maria de Lourdes Teodoro 4 June 1946 Vila Couros, Goiás, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Occupation | writer, poet, university professor and psychoanalyst |
| Years active | 1986-present |
| Known for | Afro-Brazilian studies |
Lourdes Teodoro (born 4 June 1946) is an Afro-Brazilian academic, writer, poet, and psychoanalyst who questions the effects of colonization on identity.
Biography
Maria de Lourdes Teodoro was born on 4 June 1946 in Vila Couros, Goiás, Brazil. In 1958, with the founding of Brasilia, her family relocated there, where she completed her secondary education.[1] From her youth, she began publishing poems in student journals and newspapers, including Correio Braziliense, and with a group of other students published the Antologia de Alunos Escritores do Elefante Branco (Anthology of Student Writers of the White Elephant) in 1966.[2] After graduating from the University of Brasília[3] with a degree in literature, she began teaching French and Literature at Centro Universitário de Brasília. In 1980, she began work on a doctorate at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris on Comparative Literature,[1] graduating in 1984 with a dissertation entitled Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Antillian and Brazilian identities through the works of Aimé Césaire and Mário de Andrade).[4] The work, like many of her tracts, evaluates the effects of slavery and racism on Afro-Brazilians.[5]
After returning to Brazil, Teodoro taught as an adjunct Professor at the Arts Institute of the University of Brasilia.[6] In 1991 she began offering lectures in Africa, participating in seminars in Angola and Senegal. She helped with the founding of the Institute of Black Peoples in Burkino Faso, [7] before moving to the United States. In 1996 Teodoro began graduate studies at Harvard University in African-American studies and psychoanalysis,[6][8] which she completed in 1998. Her post-doctoral internship in childhood and adolescence psychopathology was completed at the psychiatry clinic of the University Hospital of Brasilia.
Teodoro currently conducts academic research at the Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-brasileiras (Institute for Research and Afro Brazilian Studies) in Rio de Janeiro[6] and is practicing psychoanalist. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and an associate member of the Brasilia Psychoanalytic Society.[3]
Selected works
- with Heleno, Guido, Carlos Pontes, Reginaldo Fontele, et al., Antologia de Alunos Escritores do Elefante Branco (in Portuguese). Brasília, Brasil. 1966.[2]
- Água-marinha ou Tempo sem palavra (in Portuguese). Brasília, Brasil: Distribuição, Livraria Galilei. 1978.
- "Dialogue". Présence Africaine (in French). Paris, France. 123 (3): 121. September 1982. ISSN 0032-7638.
- ""Moi, laminaire" ou la force de regarder demain... Vu du Brésil". Présence Africaine (in French). Paris, France. 126 (2): 24–26. June 1983. ISSN 0032-7638.
- Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Ph.D.) (in French). Paris, France: Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle. 1984.
- Fricote, swing: ensaio sócio-antropológico em ritmo de jazz (in Portuguese). Brasilia, Brasil: Thesaurus. 1986.
- with Bruce, Iain, "The Generation of Fear". The Black Scholar. San Francisco, California: Routledge. 19 (4-5): 51. July 1988. ISSN 0006-4246. Also in Margaret Busby (ed.), Daughters of Africa, London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, pp. 281–283, ISBN 0-224-03592-4.
- Flores de Goiás (in Portuguese). Brasilia, Brasil: Autorin. 1994. ISBN 978-85-900102-1-0.
- Paysage en attente (in Portuguese). Brasília, Brasil: Autorin. 1995. ISBN 978-8-590-01022-7.
- Canções do mais belo incesto e poemas antigos (in Portuguese). Brasília, Brasil: Autorin. 1996.
- Modernisme brésilien et négritude antillaise: Mário de Andrade et Aimé Césaire (in French). Paris, France: Harmattan. 1999. ISBN 978-2-738-48027-9.
- Identidade Cultural e Diversidade Étnica – Négritude Africano-Antilhana e Modernismo Brasileiro (in Portuguese). Scortecci Editora, 2015. ISBN 978-85-366-4434-9.
- Identidades Culturais e Négritude Antilhana: Prática em Literatura Compartilhada (in Portuguese). Scortecci Editora, 2015. ISBN 978-85-366-4130-0.
References
Citations
- 1 2 "Lourdes Teodoro" (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: AllAboutArts. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- 1 2 Sousa, Salomão (2004). "Lourdes Teodoro". Brasilia, Brazil: Antonio Miranda. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- 1 2 "Identidades Culturais eNégritude Antilhana / Maria de Lourdes Teodoro" (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil: Grupo Editorial Scortecci. 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ↑ Teodoro 1984.
- ↑ "Black Brazil". New Internationalist. December 1991. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Maria de Lourdes Teodoro". Escavador. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ↑ Brito 2006, pp. 91-93.
- ↑ "Prior to 1992". Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
Sources
- Brito, Walter Gualberto de (2006). Memórias de uma família negra brasileira: os inquilinos da casa amarela (in Portuguese). Brasilia, Brasil: Thesaurus Editora. ISBN 978-85-7062-575-5.
- Teodoro, Maria de Lourdes (1984). Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Ph.D.) (in French). Paris, France: Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle.