Interarts Dialogues: Image, History, Legibility

Abstract

This dossier publishes, among the articles received, some of the texts presented at the symposium “Interart Dialogues: Image, History, Legibility”, during the IX Congress of Professors of African Literatures in Portuguese and the I National Congress of AFROLIC, held at the State University of Maranhão - UEMA, in São Luís, from June 4 to 6, 2025. The interdisciplinary approach of interart studies allows for a possibility of reading the literary text not as an isolated occurrence, but rather as a manifestation inserted in the complex and dynamic fabric of the cultural field. Paying attention to dialogues that poets and authors of African fiction, from Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, establish with other artistic systems – such as painting, sculpture, photography, cinema, theater, music and dance – , the proposal of this dossier.