Brazil honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013: script of exclusions

Abstract

The emergence and validation of new voices in the Brazilian literary scenario has shown that their production has excellence and depicts the sociocultural heterogeneity of our country. This article displays the multiplicity of authors who are steadily gaining grounds in the national literary scene. They are examples of decentralized discourses, bringing the peripheral, indigenous and black female authorship, among others, to the literary debate. However, this multiplicity of voices was not represented at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, an important event of the book market, that could have shown to the world the diversity of productions and authors of our culture. In a certain way, the composition of the Brazilian delegation mirrored, through the list of authors, the exclusionary paradigm of the national sociohistorical process. This script of exclusions was unveiled even during the event, generating controversies triggered by the Brazilian authors themselves at the Frankfurt Fair, especially in the opening speech of Luiz Ruffato, who created a split within the retinue of writers.