The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Memory, Narrative, and History
Redaktion: Peralta, Elsa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000440638
• Artikelnr.: 62413007

Autorenporträt

Elsa Peralta is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC), School of Arts & Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; The history and memory of the Portuguese Return from Africa -
Elsa Peralta; PART I. NARRATIVES OF HISTORY AND MEMORY; Chapter 1 Traumatic
loss, successful integration. The agitated and the soothing memory of the
Return from Portugal's African empire - Christoph Kalter; Chapter 2 The
Jornal O Retornado's readers and the construction of a narrative of the
Return from Africa (1975-1976) - Morgane Delaunay; Chapter 3 Remembering
the Return: Personal narratives of paradox and bewilderment - Elsa Peralta;
Chapter 4 The retornados and their "roots" in Angola. A generational
perspective on the colonial past and the postcolonial present - Irène Dos
Santos; PART II. LITERATURE AND THE WORKINGS OF IMAGINATION; Chapter 5
Acoustic remains: Listening for colonialism and decolonisation in Isabela
Figueiredo's life-writing - Isabel A. Ferreira Gould; Chapter 6 The frizzy
hair of the retornados: "Race" and gender in literature on mixed-race
identities in Portugal -Doris Wieser; Chapter 7 The (des)retorno of
(bi)nationals: real and imagined experiences - Carolina Peixoto; Chapter 8
Retornadiana: The writing of the retornados and the memorialisation of the
Return in postcolonial Portugal - João Pedro George; PART III. MEDIA AND
CULTURAL MEMORY; Chapter 9 Historical reflexivity and artistic reflexivity.
The colonial society in the film Tabu and the naturalisation of the
settlers' gaze - Nuno Domingos; Chapter 10 Negotiating the end of the
Portuguese empire: The retornados' perspective in the TV series Depois do
Adeus - Teresa Pinheiro; Chapter 11 As Time Goes By. Portuguese retornados
and postcolonial melancholia - Marcos Cardão; Chapter 12 Connected colonial
nostalgia: content and interactions of the Retornados e Refugiados de
Angola Facebook group - Bruno Góis; PART IV. REWRITINGS AND ARTISTIC
APPROPRIATIONS; Chapter 13 Some of the children of it all. Reflections on
Children of the Return [ Filhos do Retorno] , a performance by Teatro do
Vestido: constructions, representations, memories and postmemories - Joana
Craveiro; Chapter 14 Rewriting recent Portuguese colonial history through
postcolonial documentary theatre - André Amálio; Chapter 15 My own
recollection of their lives: Visual narratives of an archival
reappropriation - Céline Gaille; Chapter 16 The retornado as archive of the
sensible in contemporary Portuguese artistic practices: between
transmemories, nostalgias and possible futures - Maria-Benedita Basto