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The journal Abril is a national and international vehicle of studies and reviews about the literary production of Portugal and Portuguese speaking African countries (Angola, Green Cape Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Princípe), be it in a specific approach or comparatist ones. QUALIS CAPES A2 (2017-2020)

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Call for No 38 - Displacement and Intercultural Memory: Dialogues and Tensions in Portuguese Literature and African Literatures in Portuguese Language

2026-06-29

Call for vol. 18, no. 38 - Submission deadline: 01/06/2026 to 30/11/2026.
Publication: April 2027.

THEME – Displacement and Intercultural Memory: Dialogues and Tensions in Portuguese Literature and African Literatures in Portuguese Language

Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Maged Talaat Mohamed Ahmed Elgebaly (Universidade de Assuã) and Prof. Dr. Júlio Cesar Machado de Paula (Universidade Federal Fluminense).

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Current Issue

Vol. 18 No. 36 (2026): Literature of the Empire and Overseas: contemporary readings
Capa Abril 36

Guest editors:

Mário César Lugarinho (USP) and Silvio Renato Jorge (UFF)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36
Published: 2026-07-31

Full Issue

Introduction

  • Introduction

    Silvio Renato Jorge, Mário César Lugarinho
    09-14
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.72062

Articles

  • Portuguese colonial literature and its postcolonial reconfigurations

    Isabella Tavares Sozza Moraes
    17-28
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.68796

  • Points of escape in the Guinean literary system and conflict as a way out in Auá: novela negra

    Felipe Rodrigues Soares
    29-44
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/jrc3mw66

  • Logos and eros: writing about female desire in Ida e volta duma caixa de cigarros

    Bruna da Silva Otto de Oliveira
    45-58
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/tgf9xc87

  • Transits of humus: colonial perspectives between Caetano Campo and Raul Brandão

    Ubiratã Roberto Bueno de Souza, Gabriel Fallaci Fernando
    59-76
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.69950

  • The “Portuguese hero”: the children’s and youth literature of Adolfo Simões Müller and its adequacy to the censorship of the estado novo

    Alex de Oliveira Santos, Paulo César Ribeiro Filho
    77-89
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.69855

  • Calema. Romance africano, by Djamba Dàllá: a female colonial (and a bildungsroman)

    Jorge Vicente Valentim, Penélope Salles
    91-110
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.69741

  • Silenced voices: colonialism, gender, and the exclusion of African women in Portuguese literature

    Tiago Negrão Andrade, Maria Cristina Gobbi
    111-129
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.68500

  • When the smallest things unveil the greatest injustices: Herberto Helder and his passage through Angola

    Marco Silva
    131-144
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/d5687r19

  • Portugal as space of ruptures and continuities in A geração da utopia, by Pepetela

    Justine Prinstrop
    145-158
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.68647

  • Colonial literature in the 21st century? Laudatory memories of Portuguese colonialism in three contemporary novels

    Daniel Laks
    159-170
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.68929

  • Glory and mission: a comparative study between the Portuguese writings Os Lusíadas and Dialogue on the conversion of the gentile

    Fabio Henrique Oliveira Rodrigues da Silva
    171-186
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/1dj83h80

  • A grammar of alterity: Recordações d’uma colonial (memorias da preta Fernanda) as a laboratory of literary coloniality

    Luca Fazzini, Danielle Duque Baracho
    187-201
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.70716

Reviews

  • Between lines and margins: the writing and life ritual of Mário Cláudio

    Rodrigo Felipe Veloso
    203-209
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/nn8at527

  • About this issue

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v18i36.73405
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