Although plurilingualism is a well-established topic in the international literature, especially in situations of transnational mobility, we still know little about the learning and appropriation of non-standard forms of English by young Brazilians online. Unlike the instrumental uses that predominate in formal English language teaching, digital literacy practices often focus on identity construction and expression, posing questions of race, gender, sexuality, and social status. Based on a digital ethnography of a Facebook page focused on American black popular culture, we analyze the linguistic resources and cultural references drawn upon by participants. The research seeks to understand the perspectives and online practices of young Brazilians, mobilizing theoretical resources from New Literacy Studies to understand the processes of discursive construction and resignification. The results show the importance of virtual spaces for the affirmation of subaltern identities, and at the same time the spatial restriction of some discursive expressions of identity, isolated from other educational and social environments in which the participants circulate. The article concludes by considering the implications for the democratization of foreign language learning in Brazil.

In his play Endgame, Samuel Beckett explores individuals divided between the simplicity and the complexity of mind and body. Therefore, based on Ricoeur’s concepts of memory and body (1968; 2007), this article aims to analyze the knowledge from the self and the other in the play, and how dependent they are on each other and their memories.

O presente artigo propõe uma leitura do conto distópico “The Fluted Girl” (2003), de Paolo Bacigalupi, centrada nos possíveis desdobramentos do gótico presentes no texto. Partimos da compreensão do conto como uma narrativa que tenta representar os mecanismos de consumo e poder através de uma visão negativa do mundo, que o aproxima das noções de gótico tal como apresentadas por Botting (1999) e França (2017), associando-as com os impactos dos avanços tecnológicos sobre a sociedade. Além disso, analisamos as configurações corporais das personagens, sejam elas humanas ou não, como evidência dessas influências do gótico sobre a distopia.