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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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