Caderno de memórias coloniais and Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso: women tell the ruins of the empire

This essay aims to analyze how Caderno de Memórias Coloniais (2015) and Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso (2019), narratives by Isabela Figueiredo and Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, seek to address the two sides of the same story: the history of the Portuguese presence in Africa. The work seeks to discuss how...

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Autor: Alves Teotônio, Rafaella Cristina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
Repositorio:Abril (Niterói)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/50202
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.uff.br/revistaabril/article/view/50202
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ruin
Africa
racism
colonial nostalgia
post-memory
ruína
África
racismo
nostalgia colonial
pós-memória
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Sumario:This essay aims to analyze how Caderno de Memórias Coloniais (2015) and Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso (2019), narratives by Isabela Figueiredo and Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, seek to address the two sides of the same story: the history of the Portuguese presence in Africa. The work seeks to discuss how the narratives of these two authors build, from the ruins of the Empire, visions about the process of colonization and decolonization, bringing to contemporary Portuguese Literature the debate on themes such as colonial nostalgia, racism and the post- memory.