
Informed by years of his own original research, Angola Janga brings to light new dimensions of the history of Palmares, a maroon community in seventeenth-century Brazil that existed for nearly a century and at its peak is said to have had as many as 20,000 residents. as Angola Janga – Kingdom of Runaway Slaves (2019). D’Salete’s epic Angola Janga – uma história dos Palmares (2018), was recently published in the U.S. Edition of International Material in 2018.

in Art History from the Universidade de São Paulo.Ĭumbe (2014), which was translated into English as Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for Their Freedom (Fantagraphics, 2017), received the prestigious Eisner Award for the Best U.S. Marcelo d’Salete is an internationally recognized artist whose graphic novels about slavery and resistance have been translated into multiple languages.


The Doctoral Minor in Literary Theory, Criticism, and Aesthetics.
