Outputs (3)

Yvone Kane, memory, mourning and melancholia. Unresolved pasts and “lost futures” (2024)
Book Chapter
Miranda, R. (2024). Yvone Kane, memory, mourning and melancholia. Unresolved pasts and “lost futures”. In Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking Context: Tensions, Disputes, and Post-Memory Heritage (187-212). Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783421-014

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

History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto” (2020)
Book Chapter
Miranda, R. (2020). History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto”. In A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

The impact of João Paulo Borges Coelho’s ‘A força do mar de Agosto’ rests largely on its concurrent conceptualization of the Indian Ocean and on its instrumental use of the Indian Ocean as a literary device. In Borges Coelho’s short story, the sea is... Read More about History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto”.

Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the University Discourse (2019)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (in press). Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the University Discourse. In Other ‘68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ‘68

This chapter tracks the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s evolving position on the French experi-ence of May 1968. Lacanian notions around structure and desire were clearly at play in the run up to the May events and initially Lacan was supportive of bot... Read More about Lacan's May '68: Analysing the Institution in the Wake of the University Discourse.