Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar

Gon�alves Miranda, Rui

Abstract

Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (1990) is a landmark in Lusophone cinema’s revisitation of the history of Portuguese expansion and colonial conflicts. This article aims at analysing the film’s political import by extrapolating from Jacques Rancière’s meditation on the ‘aesthetic regime’ and from Manoel de Oliveira’s references to Derridean deconstruction. Non and Oliveira’s filming praxis both exceed and disrupt the filmmaker’s personal logocentric and teleological theories of history and cinema.

Citation

Gonçalves Miranda, R. (2013). Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar. Hispanic Research Journal, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000033

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Nov 12, 2013
• Deposit Date: Mar 3, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 3, 2016
• Journal: Hispanic Research Journal
• Print ISSN: 1468-2737
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-2737
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Open
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000033
• Keywords: Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese Cinema, Colonial Wars, Aesthetics and Politics, Deconstruction, Jacques Rancière, Jacques Derrida
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/719520
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000033?journalCode=yhrj20
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Hispanic Research Journal on 12 November 2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000033