A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
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https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v8i16.29894Keywords:
Portuguese return, memory, postcolonial.Abstract
Much has been written about the traumatic experience of the ‘returned’ to Portugal, after the colonial period in African countries. However, some recently publicated novels - notably, Caderno de memórias coloniais (Isabela Figueiredo, 2009), and O retorno (Dulce Maria Cardoso, 2012) - retake this subject through a subjective discourse, focusing family memories, forty years after the independence of former colonies. In a postcolonial feminist perspective, we can identify in these novels some particular gender and race injunctions that exist today, such as traces of a unresolved colonial memory. This article intends to investigate who are the subjects of these memory discourses that put into question the colonial-patriarchal order, situated on the margins, which enable them to build a conter-narrative of colonial memory.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21881/abriluff.2016n16a342
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