19 articles in this issue
Patrícia Lino, Patrícia Martinho Ferreira
O dossiê temático I Am Embedded in a History of Imposed Silences:1 Práticas literárias e artísticas decoloniais luso-africanas reúne trabalhos críticos e artísticos de autoras(es) africanas(os), portuguesas(es) e afro-portuguesas(es) que se dedicam, a par... see more
Luís Madureira
I analyze two agit-prop plays produced in Angola during the social revolutionary phase immediately after independence (1975-1986). Arguably, this period’s literary and cultural production was governed by a liberation script grounded on a largely “mythic” ... see more
Francisco Noa
This essay seeks to explore the plurality and diversity of dimensions and roles that women assume in José Craveirinha’s literary imagination. The powerful and appealing social and cultural panel formed there stems from the experiences and irreverence of t... see more
Inês Forjaz de Lacerda
Luís Carlos Patraquim’s poetry often explores how bodily sensations blend with those of the natural world as they move throughout Mozambique, particularly the urban city of Maputo and the separate, rural Island of Mozambique. Rough winds breeze through bo... see more
Marie Claire de Mattia
This essay begins with a comparison of Gayatri Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988) and Eni Puccinelli Orlandi’s As formas do silêncio (2007). Through a contrastive analysis of these works, I aim to rephrase our critical understanding of the meaning a... see more
Marlon Augusto Barbosa
Esse texto pretende tecer alguns comentários sobre o filme Virgem Margarida (2012), do diretor Licínio Azevedo. O objetivo é mostrar que, ao recuperar a história das mulheres enviadas para os campos de reeducação e de alguns símbolos da revolução, Licínio... see more
Jesús Alexander Montoya Omaña
O livro Caderno de memórias coloniais (2018), da escritora portuguesa Isabela Figueiredo, potencializa um exemplo da escrita como matriz estranha, pois sua gênese passa por uma construção digital, a partir do formato do blogue, até sua edição impressa no ... see more
Ayodeji Richard Olugbuyiro
While Negritude is certainly the major ideological underpinning that inspired poetry of Black intellectuals opposing racial subjugation in the twentieth century, its relevance in postcolonial times has been a subject of contention. The reasons for this in... see more
Kathryn Sanchez
Grada Kilomba’s performance-installation O barco/The Boat (2021) is a denunciation of the legacies of colonialism, racism, and social injustices in contemporary society. In these times of perpetual crises, race crimes, discrimination, and the mediation of... see more
Pedro Cardim
This article provides an overview of the advancements in discussions surrounding Portugal’s imperial history. It begins by introducing the scholarly developments of recent decades, both during and after Salazar’s dictatorship, highlighting their areas of ... see more
Dário Pequeno Paraíso, Patrícia Martinho Ferreira; Adi Gold
Dário Pequeno Paraíso (Lisbon, 1991) is a Portuguese visual artist born toSantomean parents. In 2014 he moved to São Tomé and Príncipe and created the“Dário Pequeno Paraíso” brand. Aside from featuring his work in commercialprojects, Dário has shown his p... see more
Inês Beleza Barreiros
Salão Nobre | Salão Pobre [Noble Hall, Poor Hall] is an image-memory aimed at unleashing the imagination and encapsulate a potentiality: what is yet not but could otherwise.1 It is a visual intervention into Portugal’s colonial archive, understood here as... see more
Margarida Vale de Gato
Alice Neto de Sousa
Biru
Metrópolis, Biru, 2023
Ryane Leão; Marguerite Harrison
Luís Miguel Nava; Ricardo Vasconcelos, Alexis Levitin
Alessandra Santos