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Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. The philosopher Paulo Arantes, one of the most shrewd analysts of Brazilian society, shows in this essay how the image of Brazil as a country of the future is transformed into the future of the world, but inside out, as an irreparable social tragedy.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. This volume brings together two of Silviano Santiago's major essays. "O entre-lugar do discurso latino-americano" makes a blunt and original analysis of Latin American literature and thought in dialogue with the philosophical perspective of Derrida and Foucault. "Poder e alegria" brings an accurate reflection on Brazilian literature after the military coup of 1964.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. In April 1968, Rogério Duarte, graphic designer and one of the main names in tropicalism, was arrested and tortured by the military dictatorship after participating in the important Passeata dos 100 Mil in Rio de Janeiro. Upon leaving prison, he wrote "A grande porta do medo" (The great door of fear), a long essay and account of torture, which would remain unpublished for over 35 years and finally gains its definitive version in this book, a fundamental testimony for understanding political repression in Brazil.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. In the three essays collected in this volume, psychoanalyst and essayist Maria Rita Kehl, one of the most acute interpreters of Brazilian society today, deals with resentment, torture, and bovarism in Brazil.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. This book brings together two facets of Gabriel Cohn, one of the most important Brazilian sociologists: "Temporalidades" is a reflection on time in sociology, in dialogue with and in homage to the Luso-Mozambican sociologist Hermínio Martins, and "O tempo e o modo" also reflects on this issue from a Marxist perspective. Civilization, citizenship and barbarism" presents an instigating reflection on the relationship between civility and democratic political action.

Published in Portugal, Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. In the two essays compiled here, "Ideas out of place" and "National by subtraction," the important literary critic Roberto Schwarz discusses a paradox experienced by Brazilian society as a malaise, in which there is a sense of dislocation between ideas and place and between culture and society.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. In the debut volume of the Ultramares collection, we bring you the essay "The modernist movement", by Mário de Andrade. Originally published in 1942, for the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the Week of Modern Art, it is an extensive overview by one of its great protagonists. In this special issue, it is followed by an interview with the author and the poem "Meditação sobre o Tietê", from 1945.

The Tembetá collection brings the trajectories and reflections of great indigenous thinkers in Brazil, in books that bring together essays, statements, and interviews.Tembetá is the first collection of books about indigenous thinkers in the world. The tribute in this volume is to Eliane Potiguara, a precursor of the struggle for the rights of indigenous women and of the indigenous literature movement. Eliane was the founder of Grumin (Indigenous Women's Group), the first indigenous women's institution in Brazil, back in the 1980s, and later, in the 1990s, an indigenous rights consultant to the UN.

Expressa is a collection of anthologies of Brazilian comics, cartoonists, and illustrators, winner of the important HQMix 2021 award in the Best Editorial Project category. J. Carlos (1884-1950) is one of the greatest Brazilian illustrators of all times, considered the great modernizer of our cartoonism. The present issue of Expressa brings a wide panorama of his work, from his first drawings, at the beginning of the 20th century, to the last covers he did for Careta magazine.