Paula Rego's Map of Memory

Maria Manuel Lisboa is senior lecturer in Portuguese, Brazilian and African Lusophone literature at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is the author of two books on Portuguese and Brazilian authors and of articles on themes of gender, nationality and origin in nineteenth and twentieth-century Portuguese and Brazilian literature.

• Contents: Introduction: A patriot for me; Past history and deaths foretold: nation, self and other from the 1960s to the 1980s; (He)art history or a death in the family: the late 1980s; The sins of the fathers: mother and land revisited in the 1990s; An interesting condition: the abortion pastels; Conclusion: Artist and model: let me count the ways I love you; Bibliography; Indexes.

'Lisboa enriches our response to Rego's art by restoring its historical and political context. Rego's play on cruelty and power has been remarked on before, but Lisboa uncovers deeper layers of resonance.' - Frances Spalding, TLS 'This valuable addition to the literature on the contemporary Portuguese artist Paula Rego is particularly useful since it places her work in a specifically Portuguese context, one which has not been adequately explored by other studies of her work in English... a vigorous new analysis of this important contemporary artist which should be useful both to scholars of Portuguese culture and society and to those more interested in Rego from a purely painterly perspective.' - David Frier, Bulletin of Spanish Studies '... this magnificent guided tour.' - The Contemporary Review