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Uma literatura das ausencias: o colonialismo portugues e os seus rescaldos em ficcões de autoria feminina (2009 ate ao presente)

Vieira Foz, Romeu de Jesus
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9907-6181
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593441909219757

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
The present work reflects on the most noteworthy recent trends in contemporary, postcolonial Portuguese literature authored by women writers, namely Isabela Figueiredo's Caderno de memorias coloniais (2009), Dulce Maria Cardoso's O retorno (2011), Aida Gomes's Os pretos de Pousaflores (2011), Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's Esse cabelo (2015), Isabela Figueiredo's most recent novel A Gorda (2016), and Alexandra Lucas Coelho's Deus-dara (2016). Specifically, I address how these women writers engage the public sphere through their fiction's focus on formative but still controversial events in Portugal's recent history. I argue that the novels I analyze play a critical and transformative role as they question the still imperialist discourse of Portuguese national culture produced by the state and the media, among others. By giving voice to other stories and/or experiences that were, and still are, traditionally excluded by the hegemonic narratives of the nation, and inspired by the sociology of absences developed by Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, I claim that they form a canon of a "literature of absences" that focuses on colonialism and its aftermath in order to push the boundaries of the still crystalized representations of the Portuguese empire, and to showcase their myriad reverberations in postcolonial Portugal. Ultimately, in times that call for an urgent and necessary decolonization of the former European empires, this dissertation aims to contribute to surveying the different ways contemporary, women-authored fiction in Portugal imagines a post-imperial condition.
Pedro Pereira, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Ignacio Corona, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Isis Barra Costa, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
333 p.
Literature; Romance Literature
Contemporary Portuguese Literature; Post-Colonialism; Prose fiction; Women writers

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  • Vieira Foz, R. D. J. (2020). Uma literatura das ausencias: o colonialismo portugues e os seus rescaldos em ficcões de autoria feminina (2009 ate ao presente) [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593441909219757

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  • Vieira Foz, Romeu de Jesus. Uma literatura das ausencias: o colonialismo portugues e os seus rescaldos em ficcões de autoria feminina (2009 ate ao presente). 2020. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593441909219757.

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  • Vieira Foz, Romeu de Jesus. "Uma literatura das ausencias: o colonialismo portugues e os seus rescaldos em ficcões de autoria feminina (2009 ate ao presente)." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593441909219757

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