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This text examines Stella do Patrocínio’s marginalized voice, exposing racism, colonialism, and state violence. Analysing her falatório, it critiques psychiatric and literary silencing and misrepresentation, urging a shift from reductive representation to confronting systemic erasure.
Keywords: Do Patrocínio, Stella; marginalization; racism; colonialism; psychiatric violence; literary silencing
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Part of Falatório/Chatter Containing:
Translator’s Note / Regina Alfarano
Listening to the Chatter, Silencing Gossip / Mariléa de Almeida
Stella do Patrocínio’s Falatório: Notes on Context and Content / Iracema Dulley, Marlon Miguel
[Audio recorded by Carla Guagliardi]
Caderno/Notebook
Versos, Reversos, Pensamentos e Algo Mais… / Verses, Reverses, Thoughts, and More…
[Video recorded by Carla Guagliardi]
It’s Stella and a Constellation We Should Be Talking About / Carla Guagliardi
Why Read and Listen to Stella do Patrocínio? / Anna Carolina Zacharias
Orality and Listening as an Ethical Practice at the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum / Carolina Rodrigues de Lima, Diana Kolker Carneiro da Cunha
[Video of Audio 1]
Title
Why Read and Listen to Stella do Patrocínio?
Author(s)
Anna Carolina Zacharias
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-35_07
Description
This text examines Stella do Patrocínio’s marginalized voice, exposing racism, colonialism, and state violence. Analysing her falatório, it critiques psychiatric and literary silencing and misrepresentation, urging a shift from reductive representation to confronting systemic erasure.
Is Part Of
Falatório/Chatter
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
October 7, 2025
Subject
Do Patrocínio, Stella
marginalization
racism
colonialism
psychiatric violence
literary silencing
Rights
© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
263
page end
267
Source
Stella do Patrocínio, Falatório/Chatter, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel, Cultural Inquiry, 35 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 263–67

References

  • Medical transcript, 21 January 1988, patient 00694, Colônia Juliano Moreira Archives, trans. by Regina Alfarano

Cite as: Anna Carolina Zacharias, ‘Why Read and Listen to Stella do Patrocínio?’, in Stella do Patrocínio, Falatório/Chatter, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel, Falatório, 35 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 263-67 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-35_07>