Tennina, Lucía. Cuidado com os poetas! Literatura e periferia na cidade de São Paulo, translated by Ary Pimentel, Zouk, 2017.

Abstract

Cuidado com os poetas! Literatura e periferia na cidade de São Paulo shows how urban peripheral communities of the city, often all referred to erroneously as favelas in the media, are spaces where cultural and literary production flourish. A professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires with a background in anthropology, Tennina combines literary analysis with first-person interviews to effectively counter popular discourses that associate these communities solely with criminality and drug trafficking.