Abstract
Author of Para ler Raymond Williams (Paz e Terra, 2001), Dez lições sobre estudos culturais (Boitempo, 2003) and dozens of other articles and essays published in Brazil and other countries, Maria Elisa Cevasco is one of the first researchers in Brazil to approach Raymond Williams’s work from a peripheral perspective of the development of capitalist societies. From this perspective, cultural materialism regains its analytical vigour, especially when exercised from the notion of cultural criticism. In this interview, she comments on her educational path and highlights some elements that led her to this understanding of cultural criticism and of Williams’s body of work.
Keywords:
Interview; Cultural materialism; Raymond Williams; Cultural criticism; Maria Elisa Cevasco