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 Lupati1. Bridging Borders: Travelling through Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Life and WorksHilarino da Luz2. Spousal Violence: Violent Masculinity in Ferréz and Marcelino FreireAndré Nascimento3. An Infernal Eden: Postmodern Apocalyptic Tone in Deus-dará and its Use as a Critique of Lusophone RacismMaggie L.N. Felisberto4. To Decolonize is to Perform: The Theory-in-Praxis of Grada KilombaInês Beleza Barreiros and Joacine Katar Moreira5. Recognition on the Walls: Street Art and Pixo in São Paulo, Alexandre Barbosa Pereira6. Streets of Revolution: Analyzing Representations of the Carnation Revolution in Street ArtMargarida Rendeiro7. "Dance is a Disguise": Batida and the ‘infrapolitics’ of Dance Music in Postcolonial PortugalPedro Schacht Pereira8. The Luso and Rap: The Political Reinvention of LanguageSusan de Oliveira9. Revolution and Poetry: Portuguese Rap as a Contemporary Practice of Protest SongsFederica Lupati10. Tragic Revolutions on Screen: Decolonization revisited in Cavalo Dinheiro [Horse Money] (2014) by Pedro Costa and Virgem Margarida [Virgin Margarida] (2012) by Licínio AzevedoAnna Mester11. Scaring the Canon, Criticizing the Country: Brazilian Horror Film in the 21st CenturyJeremy Lehnen12. Filming Ghosts: Reviving Memories in Haunted Spaces, Personal ReflectionsPedro Neves