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Title: | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance | Authors: | Garraio, Júlia | Keywords: | Colonialism; Portuguese literature; António Lobo Antunes; Aida Gomes; Lusotropicalism; Return | Issue Date: | Oct-2019 | Publisher: | SAGE | Project: | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/648624/EU | Serial title, monograph or event: | Violence Against Women | Volume: | 25 | Issue: | 13 | Abstract: | This essay examines two Portuguese novels about colonialism and its legacies: António Lobo Antunes's Fado Alexandrino (1983) and Aida Gomes's Os Pretos de Pousaflores (The Blacks from Pousaflores) (2011). Fado Alexandrino perpetuates the use of Black women's raped bodies as a plot device to represent colonial violence, while Gomes's narrative empowers racialized victims of sexual abuse and challenges dominant public memories of the Colonial War. A close reading of these novels, contextualized against the background of scholarly debates about the representation of sexual violence, exposes both the perils and potential of cultural works to preserve the memory of rape in armed conflict. | Description: | MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624) Article first published online: September 10, 2019 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/87665 | ISSN: | 1077-8012 1552-8448 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1077801219869547 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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