This paper reflects on Portuguese “subaltern colonialism" as a condition that perturbs the dichotomy affecting colonial archive. Portuguese colonial archive still fuels a "lusotropical" collective imaginary omitting violence from official discourses. Focusing on the idea of “postmemory”, this work considers the contribution of private and family memories of decolonization to the deconstruction of the contemporary dimension of “Lusophony” as a problematic neocolonial concept.
Rebecca Bentes Saldanha Pereira (2022). Ripensando l'"eccezione" portoghese. (Post)memorie traumatiche nel contesto post-coloniale lusofono.. Pavia : Pavia University Press.
Ripensando l'"eccezione" portoghese. (Post)memorie traumatiche nel contesto post-coloniale lusofono.
Rebecca Bentes Saldanha Pereira
2022
Abstract
This paper reflects on Portuguese “subaltern colonialism" as a condition that perturbs the dichotomy affecting colonial archive. Portuguese colonial archive still fuels a "lusotropical" collective imaginary omitting violence from official discourses. Focusing on the idea of “postmemory”, this work considers the contribution of private and family memories of decolonization to the deconstruction of the contemporary dimension of “Lusophony” as a problematic neocolonial concept.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
