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

• 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
• topic: Portuguese return; memory; postcolonial.; retorno; memória; pós-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.2016n16a342