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. In 1995, Teodoro was awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award for Outstanding Contributions to Contemporary Society from the American Biographical Institute.
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 1995, Teodoro was awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award for Outstanding Contributions to Contemporary Society from the American Biographical Institute and the following year 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.
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