Lourdes Teodoro
Brazilian writer, poet and psychoanalyst and literary critic
Lourdes Teodoro (born 4 June 1946) is an Afro-Brazilian academic, writer, poet and psychoanalyst. She studies the effects of colonization on identity.
Biography
Maria de Lourdes Teodoro was born on 4 June 1946 in Formosa, Goiás, Brazil. In 1958, with the founding of Brasília, her family relocated there, where she completed her secondary education. 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. After graduating from the University of Brasília 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, 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). The work, like many of her tracts, evaluates the effects of slavery and racism on Afro-Brazilians.
After returning to Brazil, Teodoro taught as an adjunct Professor at the Arts Institute of the University of Brasília. In 1991 she began offering lectures in Africa, participating in seminars in Angola and Senegal.
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