The two latest articles published by the Cluster's digital journal, Articulations, exemplify the fascinating variety of perspectives that shape EXC 2020 and its research on doing literature in a global perspective.

A Case Study by our former Early Career Fellow Raisa Inocêncio Ferreira Lima (Research Area 3: Future Perfect) introduces Afro-Brazilian oral and literary traditions to an English-speaking audience through the lens of ancestrofuturism. Exploring Bacurau (2019) as a storytelling act of resistance, she demonstrates how Afro-Indigenous cosmologies resist necropolitical violence by redefining temporality, culture, and identity. Drawing on Ailton Krenak's ancestrofuturism, a framework that bridges ancestral wisdom and future imaginaries, Inocêncio engages Yorubá-Nagô concepts of black-indigenous resistance, such as Axé (vital force), Conceição Evaristo's escrevivência (writing-living), Luiz Rufino's notion of enchantment, and the ginga in Lia de Itamaracá's music, positioning cultural memory as a tool for reclaiming the present.

Articulations' Curated Collection Data now includes an Insight by Lisa Poggel (Research Assistant of the Professorship for Digital Humanities by Frank Fischer, Research Area 5: Building Digital Communities). Poggel uses gender data as a case study to explore how provenance information is represented in digital humanities databases. The Insight argues that, in the development of FAIR-compliant database systems, the emphasis on reusability and interoperability should not overshadow interpretability. Poggel proposes a "provenance-by-design" approach, recently advanced by Luc Moreau, which advocates modelling provenance from the outset, making it the foundation of a system's data model and logic rather than an afterthought.

 

Raisa Inocêncio Ferreira Lima. "Ancestrofuturism: Enchantment, Confluence, Vital Energy and Living Writing". Articulations (August 2025).

Lisa Poggel. "Provenance-by-Design for Humanities Databases". In 'Data', ed. Dîlan Canan Çakir. Articulations (August 2025).