Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins

This article offers an analysis of feature films and literary fiction related to sub-Saharan African immigrants and their descendants in contemporary Portugal. I investigate how this cultural production reflects the changing Portuguese nation, where the boundaries between postcolonial Portugal and i...

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Veröffentlicht: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos 2012
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:cea_676 https://doi.org/10.4000/cea.676 urn:doi:10.4000/cea.676 en https://journals.openedition.org/cea/676 2012-12-13T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dmyi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins Cadernos de Estudos Africanos Centro de Estudos Internacionais info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2182-7400 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1645-3794 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cea Arenas, Fernando postcolonialism immigration Africans Afro-descendants cinema literature Pós-colonialismo Imigração Africanos Afrodescendentes Cinema Literatura This article offers an analysis of feature films and literary fiction related to sub-Saharan African immigrants and their descendants in contemporary Portugal. I investigate how this cultural production reflects the changing Portuguese nation, where the boundaries between postcolonial Portugal and its former African colonies, as well as the notions of what constitutes “being African” or “being European”, are being redefined. Este artigo propõe uma análise de longas-metragens e romances ligados às experiências de africanos e afrodescendentes no Portugal contemporâneo, visando investigar como a dita produção cultural reflete uma nação portuguesa em plena mutação, onde as fronteiras entre o Portugal pós-colonial e as ex-colónias africanas, tal como as noções acerca do que é “ser africano” ou “ser europeu”, estão a ser redefinidas.
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topic postcolonialism
immigration
Africans
Afro-descendants
cinema
literature
Pós-colonialismo
Imigração
Africanos
Afrodescendentes
Cinema
Literatura
spellingShingle postcolonialism
immigration
Africans
Afro-descendants
cinema
literature
Pós-colonialismo
Imigração
Africanos
Afrodescendentes
Cinema
Literatura
Arenas, Fernando
Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins
description This article offers an analysis of feature films and literary fiction related to sub-Saharan African immigrants and their descendants in contemporary Portugal. I investigate how this cultural production reflects the changing Portuguese nation, where the boundaries between postcolonial Portugal and its former African colonies, as well as the notions of what constitutes “being African” or “being European”, are being redefined.
author Arenas, Fernando
author_facet Arenas, Fernando
author_sort Arenas, Fernando
title Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins
title_short Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins
title_full Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins
title_fullStr Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins
title_full_unstemmed Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins
title_sort cinematic and literary representations of africans and afro-descendants in contemporary portugal: conviviality and conflict on the margins
publisher Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
publishDate 2012
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