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Notebook of Colonial Memories

Author : Isabela Figueiredo,Anna Klobucka,Phillip Rothwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Portugal
ISBN : 0981458033

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Notebook of Colonial Memories by Isabela Figueiredo,Anna Klobucka,Phillip Rothwell Pdf

"Isabela Figueiredo's literary memoir Notebook of Colonial Memories was originally published in Portugal in 2009 as Caderno de Memórias Coloniais. It traces the author's growing up in the 1960s and 70s in Mozambique, which was then still a Portuguese colony, and her "return" at the age of thirteen to Portugal (a country she had never seen) following Mozambique's independence. It offers an uncommonly candid and unsparing perspective on the realities of late Portuguese colonialism in Africa and on the political climate surrounding the "repatriation" to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of former colonial settlers, mainly from Angola and Mozambique. The critical introduction by Anna Klobucka and Phillip Rothwell describes these historical circumstances and contextualizes Figueiredo's text for the English-language reader, as well as commenting on the writer's complex exercise of remembrance, reconstruction and fictionalization of her experience in both Mozambique and Portugal. Keywords: Portuguese colonialism, Mozambique, decolonization, postcolonialism, memoir" --

The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa

Author : Elsa Peralta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000440638

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The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa by Elsa Peralta Pdf

Placed in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa looks at the "Return" of the Portuguese nationals living in the African colonies when they became independent. Using an interdisciplinary research agenda, the book presents a collection of research essays written by experts in the fields of anthropology, history, literature and the arts, that look at a wide range of memory narratives through which the Return—as well as the experiences of war, violence, loss and trauma—have been expressed, contested and internalised in the social realm. These narratives include testimonial accounts from the so-called retornados from Africa and their descendants, as well as works of fiction and public memory—novels, television series, artworks, films or social media—that have come to mediate the public understanding of this past. Through the dialogue between these different narrative modes, this book intends to explore the interplay between official memory, the lived experience and fiction, thus contributing to build an empirical basis to critically discuss the memory of the end of the Portuguese empire within postcolonial Europe. This book will be of great interest to postgraduates, researchers and academics, most notably the ones working in the fields of postcolonial studies, cultural studies and memory studies.

Colonial Memories

Author : Broome
Publisher : READ BOOKS
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1443776769

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Colonial Memories by Broome Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Postcolonial People

Author : Christoph Kalter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837699

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Postcolonial People by Christoph Kalter Pdf

Explores how European nations were remade by the end of empire, through the history of 'returning' settlers from Portuguese Africa.

Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking Context

Author : Ana Gabriela Macedo,Margarida Esteves Pereira,Joana Passos,Márcia Oliveira
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110783421

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Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking Context by Ana Gabriela Macedo,Margarida Esteves Pereira,Joana Passos,Márcia Oliveira Pdf

This book deals with the work of twentieth-century women artists and literary authors from Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-speaking African countries against the backdrop of political dictatorships. The essays in this volume reflect upon and challenge canonical perspectives on the arts and literature, bringing to light some of the hidden and silenced faces of Lusophone culture. By doing so, they highlight how dominant ideologies marked the artistic and literary practices of Portuguese-speaking women, and how these women in turn developed strategies of resistance through their creative work. The volume brings together contributors working in a range of disciplines, including literary criticism, the visual arts, and film studies, all of whom reflect on themes such as the reactions of women artists to authoritarianism, the representations of political repression in their work, the colonial war, and the critical revision of this historical moment by a younger generation of artists. It addresses scholars, critics, students and cultural workers with an interest in post-colonial and feminist studies in the Portuguese-speaking context.

The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal

Author : Paulo de Medeiros,Ana Paula Arnaut
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765100332

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The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal by Paulo de Medeiros,Ana Paula Arnaut Pdf

The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept of the 'hypercontemporary' as a way of reading the novel after its postmodern period. This inquiry into the notion of the hypercontemporary in its literary and cultural articulations analyzes a varied group of works representative of the most vibrant novels published in Portugal since 2000. The editors' introductory chapter theorizes the concept of the hypercontemporary as one way of looking at the novel after its postmodern period – especially in its relation to questions of violence, memory and performativity. These essays show how the Portuguese novel has evolved in the past 25 years, and how, in their diversity, most of these novels exhibit several common traits, including new topics and writing strategies – sometimes developing further entropic lines characteristic of many Postmodern narratives – and themes of violence, rapid transformation, and the many threats to a contemporary world that seems mass-produced due to greater technological advances. Readings also discuss the use of innovative graphic forms available from current print technologies and global networks. The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal provides a necessary understanding of the current literary landscape of Portugal and, in the process, the aesthetics of hyperrealism or post-postmodernism.

Negotiations of Migration

Author : Annimari Juvonen,Verena Lindemann Lino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110712018

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Negotiations of Migration by Annimari Juvonen,Verena Lindemann Lino Pdf

At a time when migration is mostly discussed in terms of “conflict” and “crisis”, it is decidedly important to acknowledge the discursive traditions, narrative patterns, and conceptual categories that continue to inform how migration is represented, analyzed and theorized in contemporary Europe. This volume focuses on the potential of artistic and critical practices to challenge hegemonic framings of migration and embrace the ambivalence inherent in migration as a conflictual, often violent, yet also liberating uprooting. By placing special emphasis on “peripheral” perspectives and subject positions, the volume provides new insights into topics such as belonging and exclusion, the “migrant crisis”, and memory. By bringing into dialogue creative practices and academic discourses, it explores how new modes of seeing and theorizing may emerge through experiences and representations of migration. Situated within the field of literary and cultural studies, it complements historical and social analyses in the emerging interdisciplinary field of migration studies.

Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945-1992)

Author : Giuliana Laschi,Valeria Deplano,Alessandro Pes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000044928

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Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945-1992) by Giuliana Laschi,Valeria Deplano,Alessandro Pes Pdf

This monograph addresses mobility and migrations as contributing phenomena in shaping contemporary Europe after 1945, in connection with decolonisation and the creation of the European Community. The disappearing of the colonial empires caused a large movement of people (former colonizers as well as formerly colonized people) from the extra-European countries to the "Old continent"; while the European integration project encouraged the movement of the citizens within the Community. The book retraces how, in both cases, migrations and mobility impacted the way national communities, as well as the European one, have been defining themselves and their real and imaginary boundaries.

Colonial Memory

Author : Sarah De Mul
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789089642936

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Colonial Memory by Sarah De Mul Pdf

Sarah De Mul is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Leuven. Her publications and research interests are in the field of comparative postcolonial studies, with a particular focus on gender, memory, and empire in Neerlandophone and Anglophone literature.

Gender, Empire, and Postcolony

Author : Anna M. Klobucka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137340993

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Gender, Empire, and Postcolony by Anna M. Klobucka Pdf

Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism.

Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World

Author : Pamila Gupta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350043664

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Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World by Pamila Gupta Pdf

Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes. Gupta considers decolonization through the twined lenses of history and ethnography, accessed through written, oral, visual and eyewitness accounts of how people experienced the transfer of state power. She looks at the materiality of decolonization as a movement of peoples across vast oceanic spaces, demonstrating how it was a process of dispossession for both the Portuguese formerly in power and ordinary colonial citizens and subjects. She then discusses the production of race and class anxieties during decolonization, which took on a variety of forms but were often articulated through material objects. The book aims to move beyond linear histories of colonial independence by connecting its various regions using the theme of decolonization, offering a productive and new approach to writing post-national histories and ethnographies. Finally, Gupta demonstrates the value of using different source materials to access narratives of decolonization, analyzing the work of Mozambican photographer Ricardo Rangel, and including lyrical prose and ethnographical observations. Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World provides a nuanced understanding of Lusophone decolonization, revealing the perspectives of people who experienced it. This book will be highly valuable for historians of the Indian Ocean world and decolonization, but also those interested in ethnography, diaspora studies and material culture.

Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception

Author : Sharmilla Beezmohun
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443889988

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Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception by Sharmilla Beezmohun Pdf

Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe presents some of the papers presented at the fourth AfroEurope@ns conference held in London in October 2013. An inter-disciplinary and groundbreaking research project and network, AfroEurope@ns covers literature, history, music, theatre, art, translation, politics, immigration, youth culture and European policies, perceptions of Africa and more, and has been bringing together leading scholars, critics, activists and artists for over ten years. A major contribution to the burgeoning subject of African-European Studies as a multi-disciplinary field of academia, this collection includes themes ranging from literature, translation and film to urban studies, politics, exile, migration, sport and the experience of the African diasporas. The book also adopts a pan-European lens, covering African-European experiences in Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France and the UK, with reference to Africa, the USA and the Caribbean. Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe is undoubtedly a major reference work which will aid in furthering a new awareness in academia of the essential contributions of Europe’s black populations in all fields.

Decolonising English Studies from the Semi-Periphery

Author : Ana Cristina Mendes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031202865

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Decolonising English Studies from the Semi-Periphery by Ana Cristina Mendes Pdf

This book investigates how decolonising the curriculum might work in English studies — one of the fields that bears the most robust traces of its imperial and colonial roots — from the perspective of the semi-periphery of the academic world- system. It takes the University of Lisbon as a point of departure to explore broader questions of how the field can be rethought from within, through Anglophone (post)coloniality and an institutional location in a department of English, while also considering forces from without, as the arguments in this book issue from a specific, liminal positionality outside the Anglosphere. The first half of the book examines the critical practice of and the political push for decolonising the university and the curriculum, advancing existing scholarship with this focus on semi-peripheral perspectives. The second half comprises two theoretically-informed and classroom-oriented case studies of adaptation of the literary canon, a part of model syllabi that are designed to raise awareness of and encourage an understanding of a global, pluriversal literary history.

The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization

Author : Ron Eyerman,Giuseppe Sciortino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030270254

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The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization by Ron Eyerman,Giuseppe Sciortino Pdf

This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Each contributor examines these cases through a shared cultural sociology frame, unifying the historical and sociological analyses carried out in the collection. More particularly, the book strengthens and improves one of the most important and popular current streams of cultural sociology, that of collective trauma. Using a comparative perspective to study the trajectories of similarly traumatized groups in different countries allows for not only a thick description of the return processes, but also a thick explanation of the mechanisms and factors shaping them. Learning from these various cases of colonial returnees, the authors have been able to develop a new theoretical framework that may help cultural sociologists to explain why seemingly similar claims of collective trauma and victimhood garner respect and recognition in certain contexts, but fail in others.

Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation

Author : Rina Benmayor,Pilar Dominguez Prats,María Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137438713

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Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation by Rina Benmayor,Pilar Dominguez Prats,María Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez Pdf

This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Eleven essays, originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, coalesce around major themes that have long concerned oral historians and social scientists: collective memories of conflictive national pasts, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of identity and public memory.