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      The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa
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      Memory, Narrative, and History

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      The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa book

      Memory, Narrative, and History
      Edited ByElsa Peralta
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      eBook Published 10 September 2021
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003146155
      Pages 442
      eBook ISBN 9781003146155
      Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Peralta, E. (Ed.). (2021). The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Memory, Narrative, and History (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003146155

      ABSTRACT

      Placed in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa looks at the "Return" of the Portuguese nationals living in the African colonies when they became independent.

      Using an interdisciplinary research agenda, the book presents a collection of research essays written by experts in the fields of anthropology, history, literature and the arts, that look at a wide range of memory narratives through which the Return—as well as the experiences of war, violence, loss and trauma—have been expressed, contested and internalised in the social realm. These narratives include testimonial accounts from the so-called retornados from Africa and their descendants, as well as works of fiction and public memory—novels, television series, artworks, films or social media—that have come to mediate the public understanding of this past. Through the dialogue between these different narrative modes, this book intends to explore the interplay between official memory, the lived experience and fiction, thus contributing to build an empirical basis to critically discuss the memory of the end of the Portuguese empire within postcolonial Europe.

      This book will be of great interest to postgraduates, researchers and academics, most notably the ones working in the fields of postcolonial studies, cultural studies and memory studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |32 pages

      Introduction

      The History and Memory of the Portuguese Return from Africa
      ByElsa Peralta

      part Part I|91 pages

      Narratives of History and Memory

      chapter 1|26 pages

      Traumatic Loss, Successful Integration. The Agitated and the Soothing Memory of the Return from Portugal's African Empire

      ByChristoph Kalter

      chapter 2|17 pages

      The Jornal O Retornado's Readers and the Construction of a Narrative of the Return from Africa (1975–1976)

      ByMorgane Delaunay

      chapter 3|23 pages

      Remembering the Return

      Personal Narratives of Paradox and Bewilderment
      ByElsa Peralta

      chapter 4|23 pages

      The Retornados and Their “Roots” in Angola. A Generational Perspective on the Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present

      ByIrène Dos Santos

      part Part II|98 pages

      Literature and the Workings of Imagination

      chapter 5|23 pages

      Acoustic Remains

      Listening for Colonialism and Decolonisation in Isabela Figueiredo's Life-Writing
      ByIsabel A. Ferreira Gould

      chapter 6|21 pages

      The Frizzy Hair of the Retornados

      “Race” and Gender in Literature on Mixed-Race Identities in Portugal
      ByDoris Wieser

      chapter 7|22 pages

      The (Des)retorno of (Bi)nationals

      Real and Imagined Experiences
      ByCarolina Peixoto

      chapter 8|30 pages

      Retornadiana

      The Writing of the Retornados and the Memorialisation of the Return in Postcolonial Portugal
      ByJoão Pedro George

      part Part III|82 pages

      Media and Cultural Memory

      chapter 9|18 pages

      Historical Reflexivity and Artistic Reflexivity

      The Colonial Society in the Film Tabu and the Naturalisation of the Settlers' Gaze
      ByNuno Domingos

      chapter 10|22 pages

      Negotiating the End of the Portuguese Empire

      The Retornados' Perspective in the TV Series Depois do Adeus
      ByTeresa Pinheiro

      chapter 11|19 pages

      As Time Goes By.Portuguese Retornados and Postcolonial Melancholia

      ByMarcos Cardão

      chapter 12|21 pages

      Connected Colonial Nostalgia

      Content and Interactions of the Retornados e Refugiados de Angola Facebook Group
      ByBruno Góis

      part Part IV|106 pages

      Rewritings and Artistic Appropriations

      chapter 13|30 pages

      Some of the Children of It All. Reflections on Children of the Return [Filhos do Retorno], a Performance by Teatro do Vestido

      Constructions, Representations, Memories, and Postmemories
      ByJoana Craveiro

      chapter 14|20 pages

      Rewriting Recent Portuguese Colonial History through Postcolonial Documentary Theatre

      ByAndré Amálio

      chapter 15|29 pages

      My Own Recollection of Their Lives

      Visual Narratives of an Archival Reappropriation
      ByCéline Gaille

      chapter 16|25 pages

      The Retornado as Archive of the Sensible in Contemporary Portuguese Artistic Practices

      Between Transmemories, Nostalgias, and Possible Futures
      ByMaria-Benedita Basto
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