A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa

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Autor(a) principal: Schmidt, Simone Pereira
Data de Publicação: 2016
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Abril (Niterói)
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/revistaabril/article/view/29894
Resumo: 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.---DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21881/abriluff.2016n16a342
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spelling A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from AfricaUma viagem longa demais, um retorno devastadorPortuguese returnmemorypostcolonial.retornomemóriapós-colonial.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.---DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21881/abriluff.2016n16a342Muito já se escreveu sobre o drama vivido pelos ‘retornados’ a Portugal, findo o período colonial nos países africanos. Entretanto, alguns romances de publicação mais recente – nomeadamente, Caderno de memórias colo­niais, de Isabela Figueiredo (2009), e O retorno, de Dulce Maria Cardoso (2012) - retomam o tema pela chave da memória: subjetiva, familiar e his­tórica, ensejando uma reaproximação às experiências vividas pelos retor­nados, quarenta anos passados da independência das ex-colônias. Numa perspectiva feminista e pós-colonial, podemos identificar na leitura dos romances algumas particulares injunções de gênero e raça que subsistem ainda hoje, como rastros da memória colonial por resolver. Este artigo busca investigar esse aspecto, ao mesmo tempo em que procura identificar quem são e o que dizem os sujeitos que, colocando em xeque a ordem a colonial-patriarcal, acabam por se situar à margem da mesma, o que lhes permite, na forma do relato de memória ou de pós-memória, contruir uma contranarrativa da memória colonial.---DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21881/abriluff.2016n16a342ABEC Brasil2016-07-18info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionPeer-reviewed ArticleArtigo avaliado por paresapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.uff.br/revistaabril/article/view/2989410.22409/abriluff.v8i16.29894ABRIL – NEPA / UFF; Vol. 8 No. 16 (2016): VOYAGE, DISLPLACEMENTS, DIFFERENCE; 119-135Abril – NEPA / UFF; v. 8 n. 16 (2016): VIAGEM, DESLOCAMENTOS, DIFERENÇA; 119-1351984-209010.22409/abriluff.v8i16reponame:Abril (Niterói)instname:Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)instacron:UFFporhttps://periodicos.uff.br/revistaabril/article/view/29894/17435Copyright (c) 2018 Abril – NEPA / UFFinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSchmidt, Simone Pereira2019-08-09T09:32:40Zoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/29894Revistahttps://periodicos.uff.br/revistaabrilPUBhttps://periodicos.uff.br/revistaabril/oairevistaabril@vm.uff.br||nepa@vm.uff.br||uffnepa@gmail.com||idafalves@gmail.com1984-20901984-2090opendoar:2019-08-09T09:32:40Abril (Niterói) - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
Uma viagem longa demais, um retorno devastador
title A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
spellingShingle A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
Schmidt, Simone Pereira
Portuguese return
memory
postcolonial.
retorno
memória
pós-colonial.
title_short A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
title_full A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
title_fullStr A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
title_full_unstemmed A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
title_sort A too long travel: the Portuguese ‘returning’ from Africa
author Schmidt, Simone Pereira
author_facet Schmidt, Simone Pereira
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Schmidt, Simone Pereira
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Portuguese return
memory
postcolonial.
retorno
memória
pós-colonial.
topic Portuguese return
memory
postcolonial.
retorno
memória
pós-colonial.
description 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.---DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21881/abriluff.2016n16a342
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