A mandioca, alimento impensado

Sabrina Sedlmayer Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais-CNPqORCID: 0000-0002-6606-116XDOI: 10.67187/nakanj-journal.7.6 Abstract: This article examines manioc flour (cassava flour) as a complex intersection of history, symbolism, and ideology in Brazilian culture. The study focuses on Brazilian popular music (MPB), specifically analyzing the song “Farinha do Desprezo” (1972) by Jards Macalé and Capinam as a key example of En savoir plus…

El narcobanquete: Gastropolítica, violencia y pedagogía del poder en Fiesta en la madriguera de Juan Pablo Villalobos

DOI: 10.67187 Mónica E. Lugo-VélezNorth Carolina State UniversityORCID: 0000-0002-0924-8761 Abstract: This article explores how Fiesta en la madriguera (2010) by Juan Pablo Villalobos constructs a narco-banquet that serves as a de-foundational device in which culinary rituals articulate a gastro-politics that subverts traditional national fictions. Through the childlike gaze of Tochtli, the novel reveals how the narco-state reconfigures Mexican En savoir plus…

Pop musique, mémoire politique et subjectivation urbaine en Angola et au Mozambique (1960 à 2025) Buata B. Malela Université de Limoges Abstract This article offers a comparative analysis of Angolan and Mozambican popular music from 1960 to 2025. The aim is not to provide an exhaustive history of the music scenes in both countries, but to En savoir plus…

Receitas do impróprio em Oswald de Andrade: “É comê bebê pitá e caí”

Otávio Augusto de Oliveira Moraes Université de Nantes Abstract: This essay takes Oswald de Andrade’s poem “Relicário” as its object of analysis, with the aim of reflecting on the figurations of the proper and the improper, both along the national/foreign axis and within the tension between the modern and the archaic, as articulated through the En savoir plus…

Cozinha viva na casa de A menina morta

Luiz Eduardo da Silva AndradeUniversidade Federal de Alagoas, Faculdade de Letrasluiz.andrade@fale.ufal.brORCID: 0000-0002-6436-8758 PDF HOW TO CITE THIS PAPER Andrade, Luiz Eduardo da Silva. “Cozinha viva na casa de A menina morta.” NaKaN: A Journal of Cultural Studies, no. 7, July 2026, https://doi.org/10.67187/nakan-journal.7.3. Référence électronique / Electronic referenceDOI : 10.67187/nakan-journal.7.3 — URL : https://nakanjournal.com/cozinha-viva-na-casa-de-a-menina-morta/ Abstract This En savoir plus…

  Langue, marché et subjectivation politique dans la musique populaire contemporaine en Belgique flamande Buata B. Malela Université de Limoges Abstract This article offers a sociological and cultural studies analysis of pop music produced in Flemish Belgium, focusing on the main corpus of Bazart, Tourist LeMC, Coely, Brihang, Soulwax, Charlotte de Witte, Oscar and the En savoir plus…

Escrever com a necessidade: A materialidade da escrita e a lista da viúva

José Newton Coelho MenesesUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais Abstract: The article suggests reflecting on writing as a material and expressive act that reflects real experiences and social interactions. It presents a list of expenses from a woman in the Portuguese Captaincy of Minas Gerais in the eighteenth century and invites readers to interpret the document En savoir plus…

La pop polonaise et la transformation du sujet depuis 1989

Musiques populaires, marché, nation et subjectivation Buata B. Malela Université de Limoges Abstract This article examines Polish pop music as a privileged site for analysing the transformation of the subject in post-socialist Poland. Rather than treating pop as a merely commercial or entertainment-oriented form, it approaches it as a cultural dispositif through which social positions, En savoir plus…

Voix, rythme et mémoire diasporique

Figures de la musique populaire dans Le Lys et le Flamboyant d’Henri Lopes Ichola Marcel Balogoun Université de Limoges Abstract This article examines the narrative, aesthetic, and sociocultural function of popular music in Henri Lopes’s Le Lys et le Flamboyant. Far from being a mere sonic background or picturesque motif, music operates in the novel En savoir plus…