Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities

Margarida Rendeiro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon. She is an Assistant Professor at Lusíada University of Lisbon, Portugal. Federica Lupati is a Research Assistant at CHAM (Center for the Humanities) and PhD candidate at NOVA University of Lisbon.

Introduction, Margarida Rendeiro and Federica Lupati



1. Bridging Borders: Travelling through Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Life and Works



Hilarino da Luz



2. Spousal Violence: Violent Masculinity in Ferréz and Marcelino Freire



André Nascimento



3. An Infernal Eden: Postmodern Apocalyptic Tone in Deus-dará and its Use as a Critique of Lusophone Racism



Maggie L.N. Felisberto



4. To Decolonize is to Perform: The Theory-in-Praxis of Grada Kilomba



Inês Beleza Barreiros and Joacine Katar Moreira



5. Recognition on the Walls: Street Art and Pixo in São Paulo, Alexandre Barbosa Pereira



6. Streets of Revolution: Analyzing Representations of the Carnation Revolution in Street Art



Margarida Rendeiro



7. "Dance is a Disguise": Batida and the ‘infrapolitics’ of Dance Music in Postcolonial Portugal



Pedro Schacht Pereira



8. The Luso and Rap: The Political Reinvention of Language



Susan de Oliveira



9. Revolution and Poetry: Portuguese Rap as a Contemporary Practice of Protest Songs



Federica Lupati



10. Tragic Revolutions on Screen: Decolonization revisited in Cavalo Dinheiro [Horse Money] (2014) by Pedro Costa and Virgem Margarida [Virgin Margarida] (2012) by Licínio Azevedo



Anna Mester



11. Scaring the Canon, Criticizing the Country: Brazilian Horror Film in the 21st Century



Jeremy Lehnen



12. Filming Ghosts: Reviving Memories in Haunted Spaces, Personal Reflections



Pedro Neves