Dossier: Digital Literature in Latin America

The strengthening of collaborative networks is especially important in emerging areas, such as digital literature studies. The scope of works encompassed by this designation, as well as its theoretical metalanguage, critical evaluation procedures, and the dynamics of literary systems impacted by digitality, are still being more precisely defined. Furthermore, issues related to the mapping, documentation, and preservation of these works—as well as their circulation and reading in educational contexts—are urgent and essential for the consolidation of the field.

Much of the theoretical and conceptual framework for digital literature still originates from institutions in the Global North, such as the Electronic Literature Organization, based in the United States. Its critical categories and analytical methodologies reflect production, circulation, and reception contexts deeply marked by socioeconomic, technological, and cultural realities that differ significantly from those we experience.

It is therefore necessary to strengthen research and collaboration networks in Brazil and Latin America that enable the study of digital literature from a situated and critical perspective, anchored in the material and symbolic conditions of the technocapitalist periphery. Thematic agendas, forms of aesthetic experimentation, and modes of technological appropriation that characterize digital literary practices in the Global South not only diverge but often collide with hegemonic narratives. Moreover, the available resources—whether hardware, software, or network infrastructure—impose constraints and open possibilities that require original, non-derivative reflection.

In this context, this call for papers for volume 21, no. 2 (Dec. 2025) of Revista Texto Digital aims to bring together contributions from researchers, students, creators, and others interested in digital literature from and in Brazil and Latin America. We welcome works discussing the specificities of production, circulation, reading, criticism, preservation, and teaching of digital literature in the region, as well as related topics.

Guest Editors:
Prof. Dr. Andréa Catrópa (Anhembi-Morumbi University)
Prof. Dr. Rejane Rocha (Federal University of São Carlos)
Prof. Dr. Vinícius Carvalho Pereira (Federal University of Mato Grosso)

Submission deadline: September 30, 2025
Publication date: December 2025
Languages accepted: Portuguese, Spanish, and English