All Outputs (17)

Yvone Kane, memory, mourning and melancholia. Unresolved pasts and “lost futures” (2024)
Book Chapter

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”.

Language and the prison-house: the cultural rhetoric of Brazil's cultural memory wars (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims to explore the contribution of cultural rhetoric towards the critique of cultural memory, taking up as case study the discussions on the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). Partially as a backlash against the work of the Tr... Read More about Language and the prison-house: the cultural rhetoric of Brazil's cultural memory wars.

World(s) apart – Borges Coelho’s Museu da Revolução and Writing in (and of) a Changing World (2022)
Journal Article

This article will depart from Said’s position on the worldliness of texts and Pheng Cheah’s reflections on postcolonial literature as world literature (2016) towards a reading of João Paulo Borges Coelho’s 2021 novel Museu da Revolução. Borges Coelho... Read More about World(s) apart – Borges Coelho’s Museu da Revolução and Writing in (and of) a Changing World.

Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing (2021)
Journal Article

This article addresses the morpholinguistic and stylistice devices underwriting Freyre’s writing as the notion of “lusotropicalism” is advanced, mainly in the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953) and the accompanying volume Um brasileiro em terras por... Read More about Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing.

Looking back for ways ahead – Revisions Post-Dictatorship memories in Repare Bem (Maria de Medeiros) and Luz Obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias) (2020)
Journal Article

Repare bem (Maria de Medeiros, 2013) and Luz obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias) are illustrative examples of women documentary filmmaker's approach to post-dictatorship memory in Brazil and in Portugal. Their attempt to counterpose affective and personal... Read More about Looking back for ways ahead – Revisions Post-Dictatorship memories in Repare Bem (Maria de Medeiros) and Luz Obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias).

History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto” (2020)
Book Chapter

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”.

'What is that to me?' Jorge de Sena's Sinais de fogo, poetry, and testimony during the Spanish civil war (2020)
Journal Article

© Institute of Modern Languages Research 2020. The Spanish civil war is featured in the works of Jorge de Sena as a moment which created a new level of political awareness and militancy. Sena's incomplete, posthumously published novel Sinais de fogo... Read More about 'What is that to me?' Jorge de Sena's Sinais de fogo, poetry, and testimony during the Spanish civil war.

‘Aprendiz de Proust’: Gilberto Freyre in Search of a Lost Past and a Renewed Future in Aventura e rotina (2019)
Journal Article

The function of the self-proclaimed ‘Proustian’ traits of Gilberto Freyre’s work will act as the point of departure for a critique of Freyre’s conception of his non-fiction works, namely the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953). As Freyre strategicall... Read More about ‘Aprendiz de Proust’: Gilberto Freyre in Search of a Lost Past and a Renewed Future in Aventura e rotina.

Fintar o destino: between the colonial bond and a postcolonial double-bind (2018)
Journal Article

The article addresses Fernando Vendrell’s Fintar o destino [Dribbling Fate] (1998) by considering the appropriation of sports by the Portuguese Estado Novo’s colonialist ideology and policies (inspired by Gilberto Freyre’s lusotropicalist theories).... Read More about Fintar o destino: between the colonial bond and a postcolonial double-bind.

Cenas de escrita. João César Monteiro: escritor de cinema, o cineasta de escritas (2018)
Book Chapter

Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro (2018)
Journal Article

“Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho, nomeadamente a abordagem da estória aos indícios do mar Índico, funciona como um ponto de partida para uma reflexão sobre questões de lei, autoridade, força e violência. A estória suplementa literariamen... Read More about Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro.

Our beloved month of August: between the filming of the real and the reality of filming (2017)
Book Chapter

"Why did they take down the pictures?": conspicuous absences and "la historia de algo más" in Roberto Bolaño's Estrella Distante. (2017)
Book Chapter

Personal infinitive: inflecting Fernando Pessoa (2017)
Book

Mal de Mar: a reading of Jorge de Sena’s “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-) Atlantic transit (2014)
Journal Article

This article analyzes Jorge de Sena’s short story “A Grã-Canária” in the context of a wider discussion on the topographies of the South Atlantic taken as an ideological construct, to some extent always already textual(ized). The story emphasizes the... Read More about Mal de Mar: a reading of Jorge de Sena’s “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-) Atlantic transit.

‘Liberdade, Igualdade, Fraternidade ou a Morte?’: extravios do post(al) colonial em Nação Crioula (2014)
Journal Article

This article aims to contest oedipal readings and the emphasis on symbols (utopian, heterotopian) which reduce the pluridimensionality of the "Postal" AND "Postal Politics" (BENNINGTON) on creole's (Post-/Neo)colonial spacing of the South Atlantic. A... Read More about ‘Liberdade, Igualdade, Fraternidade ou a Morte?’: extravios do post(al) colonial em Nação Crioula.

Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (2013)
Journal Article

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