Yvone Kane, memory, mourning and melancholia. Unresolved pasts and “lost futures”

Miranda, Rui

Abstract

The chapter aims to consider the ways in which Margarida Cardoso’s filmography, and Yvone Kane (2014) in particular, prompts a rethinking of the political and ideological processes of mourning and melancholia by placing at the forefront not only the history and the stories of women leaders in anti-colonial movements but also their legacy for individuals and communities alike. Such an approach implies a reckoning between the political and ideological aspirations of the past and the currently dominant ideological and discursive frameworks. While deploying a critique of neoliberalist triumphalism and left melancholy (Wendy Brown), the chapter draws from a feminist perspective (Nancy Fraser, Valerie Bryson) with a view to consider the extent to which Enzo Traverso’s “left-wing melancholia” and Mark Fisher’s “hauntological melancholia” can contribute towards an understanding of Margarida Cardoso’s re-evaluation of the often marginalized and silenced roles of women as socio-political agents in face of the “slow cancellation of the future” (Berardi).

• Acceptance Date: Sep 20, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jun 4, 2024
• Publication Date: Jun 17, 2024
• Deposit Date: Jun 4, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 5, 2024
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Pages: 187-212
• Series Title: Culture & Conflict
• Series ISSN: 2194-7104
• Book Title: Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking Context: Tensions, Disputes, and Post-Memory Heritage
• ISBN: 9783110783377
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783421-014
• Keywords: Postcolonialism, Neoliberalism, Margarida Cardoso, Memory, Mark Fisher, Wendy Brown, Enzo Traverso
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/27589268
• Publisher URL: https://www.degruyter.com/