rules, structure and vocabulary, knowledge of text construction, awareness in teaching and learning quality and, finally, effective and communicative use of language (p.35).Among the articles I wrote for the Revista was one that is important. Black femininity and it Construction in Toni Morrisons Novels is the analysis of crucial aspects in the authors fiction: nihilism and love. The focus was placed on the way these features become determinant forces in black womens construction of feminine identities. My conclusion for the article is that sometimes self-love becomes supremacist, other times nihilism is hegemonic, and other times there exists a certain kind of indeterminacy and ambiguity between the two, insinuated in Morrisons idea that with the best intentions in the world we can do enormous harm (28). In 1995, I took a step forward and my literary production was addressed to writing and developing literary projects. They were the beginning of a partnership with some of my students of literature. In 2000, together with professors Maria Jose Ribeiro, Angela Maria Leven, and others, I created Grupo de Pesquisa Estudos Linguisticos e Literarios (ELLIT), which has been responsible for many research projects on language and literature. So far the group has developed 27 projects on literature, language, and discourse analysis. Its latest project is Lirio Astral: Revista Virtual de Literatura Catarinense. Other critical articles were especially written for congresses, books and newspapers. Three of the them deserve mention. Upikes Religions: Making His God the Host of All Beings, published in the journal Estudos Anglo-Americanos (Rio de Janeiro/2000), discusses how religion became John Updikes major concern, as the essays by many experts show. I introduced the article with these ideas: if for Updike there is no doubt that we cannot reach God, then at least there is the hope that, after reading this collection of essays dealing with his uncountable encounters with religion and religions, God will reach us (309). Blumenalva e Naemblu: Metaforas de Uma Historiografia Literaria de Blumenau, published in Nosso Passado (In)comum: Contribuicao para o Debate sobre a Historia e a Historiografia de Blumenau (Blumenau/2000), is my attempt to give a methodological aparatus for the analysis of our local literature. I argue, in the article, that any analysis of the literature done in Blumenau since the 1960s, which wishes to be taken seriously, must consider these two elements: Blumenalva and Naemblu. Fica enfatizado, no inicio deste estudo, que, enquanto metaforas para analise da literatura e historiografia literaria de Blumenau, Blumenalva e Nauemblu nao sao apenas antagonicas e excludentes, mas que, especialmente, Naemblu representa a superacao de Blumenalva, (294) I said. Finally, Cruz e Souza e a Invencao do Leitor Afro-Brasileiro, published on the newspapers Santa e A Noticia, put together two of my deepest concerns: the symbolist African-Brazilian Poet Cruz e Souza and the invention of a reader who is typically African-Brazilian. I explain that such a reader must develop a special identification with the works of art produced by African-Brazilian writers. Uma leitura afro-brasileira pode oferecer a alternativa, ao leitor e ao poeta, de uma inclusao cultural eminentemente marcada por valores e