Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking Context : : Tensions, Disputes, and Post-Memory Heritage / / ed. by Ana Gabriela Macedo, Margarida Esteves Pereira, Joana Passos, Márcia Oliveira.

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 literatur...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Culture & Conflict , 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 220 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Experiment and Evidence
  • Unfinished Heritages: Artistic Portuguese Post-Memory Conversations about Dictatorship and Colonial Heritage
  • Postcolonial and Decolonial Feminisms: Archaeologies, Tensions, Disputes
  • From Fiction to Activism: Rounding out the Memory of Maria Lamas
  • Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, The Telephones: A Tribute to the ‘Literary Genre of the Diaspora’ and the Reinvention of a Narrative Poetics
  • Post-Utopia, Post-Conflict Literary Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Literatures: The Cases of Ana Paula Tavares and Conceição Lima
  • An “Independent Spirit”: The Work of Sarah Affonso (1899–1983) and the Changing Cultural Terrain of Mid-Twentieth-Century Portugal
  • Inventing a Language of Her Own: Writing in Teresinha Soares’ Artistic Practice
  • Poetics of Survival: (Critical) Process and Archive in Rosana Paulino’s ¿História Natural?
  • Bertina Lopes: Cartographic Notes on a Transnational Artist
  • Archival images of the Estado Novo in Portuguese Film: A Gendered Perspective in Brandos Costumes (1975), Natal 71 (1999) and Natureza Morta (2005)
  • Yvone Kane, Memory, Mourning, and Melancholia: Unresolved Pasts and “Lost Futures”
  • List of Contributors
  • Index