On How Post-Colonial Fiction Can Contribute to a Discussion of Historical Reparation: An Interpretation of As Telefones (2020) by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Post-colonial Portuguese literature published since 1974 has obscured the trauma of the colonised. In the context of Portuguese prose fiction published since the beginning of the second decade of the present millennium, authors of African descent follow on from the generation that brought about the...
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Post-colonial Portuguese literature published since 1974 has obscured the trauma of the colonised. In the context of Portuguese prose fiction published since the beginning of the second decade of the present millennium, authors of African descent follow on from the generation that brought about the African liberations. However, due to the years of political and economic instability that followed in the former colonies, these writers became part of the African-heritage diaspora that has grown up in Portugal. As such, they form the visible face of the post-colonial cultural entanglement that was produced by colonialism. Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, the author of As Telefones (The Telephones, 2020), the novel that is the focus of this article, provides an example of African-heritage writing and lived experience that has points of reference in Portuguese and Angolan cultures alike. This article argues that Portuguese prose fiction by authors of African descent destabilises cartographical imaginaries to reflect on the cultural complexity of the lived experience of people of African descent, contributing to a polyphony that has been absent from collective memory in the public space, and consequently creating possibilities for historical reparation. This article maintains that, on the one hand, As Telefones decolonises the experience of loss that literature published after 1974 has associated not only with the memory and experience of the coloniser’s body, but also and significantly, with the feeling of saudade (nostalgia or longing) that is so central to Portuguese culture; on the other, it argues that the narrative focus on the telephone as the sole means of transmission of post-memory introduces a rupture in Portuguese literary convention — in which writing is a privileged witness — by endorsing the orality that feeds into the origins of African literatures. |
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On How Post-Colonial Fiction Can Contribute to a Discussion of Historical Reparation: An Interpretation of As Telefones (2020) by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida |
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openedition-oai:revues.org:cs_6533 en https://journals.openedition.org/cs/6533 2022-11-07T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/eyqm https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ On How Post-Colonial Fiction Can Contribute to a Discussion of Historical Reparation: An Interpretation of As Telefones (2020) by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida Comunicação e sociedade Centro de estudos de comunicação e sociedade info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2183-3575 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1645-2089 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cs Rendeiro, Margarida afrodescendência Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida pensamento de fronteira projeto decolonial reparação histórica African-descendant Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida border thinking the decolonial project historical reparation Post-colonial Portuguese literature published since 1974 has obscured the trauma of the colonised. In the context of Portuguese prose fiction published since the beginning of the second decade of the present millennium, authors of African descent follow on from the generation that brought about the African liberations. However, due to the years of political and economic instability that followed in the former colonies, these writers became part of the African-heritage diaspora that has grown up in Portugal. As such, they form the visible face of the post-colonial cultural entanglement that was produced by colonialism. Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, the author of As Telefones (The Telephones, 2020), the novel that is the focus of this article, provides an example of African-heritage writing and lived experience that has points of reference in Portuguese and Angolan cultures alike. This article argues that Portuguese prose fiction by authors of African descent destabilises cartographical imaginaries to reflect on the cultural complexity of the lived experience of people of African descent, contributing to a polyphony that has been absent from collective memory in the public space, and consequently creating possibilities for historical reparation. This article maintains that, on the one hand, As Telefones decolonises the experience of loss that literature published after 1974 has associated not only with the memory and experience of the coloniser’s body, but also and significantly, with the feeling of saudade (nostalgia or longing) that is so central to Portuguese culture; on the other, it argues that the narrative focus on the telephone as the sole means of transmission of post-memory introduces a rupture in Portuguese literary convention — in which writing is a privileged witness — by endorsing the orality that feeds into the origins of African literatures. A literatura pós-colonial portuguesa publicada depois de 1974 deixou na obscuridade o trauma do colonizado. Os autores afrodescendentes das narrativas portuguesas publicadas desde o início da segunda década deste milénio são herdeiros da geração que fez as libertações africanas, mas que, devido aos anos subsequentes de instabilidades políticas e económicas, fazem parte da diáspora afrodescendente que cresceu em Portugal, constituindo a face visível do emaranhado cultural pós-colonial que o colonialismo produziu. Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, autora de As Telefones (2020), que se analisa no presente artigo, é um exemplo de uma autoria e vivência afrodescendente que tanto deve às referências culturais portuguesas como à cultura angolana. Assim, argumenta-se que as narrativas de autoria portuguesa afrodescendente desestabilizam imaginários cartográficos para refletir sobre a complexidade cultural da vivência afrodescendente, contribuindo para uma polifonia ausente sobre a memória coletiva no espaço público e consequente possibilidade de reparação histórica. Sustenta-se, por um lado, que As Telefones descoloniza a experiência da perda que a literatura publicada depois de 1974 associou à memória e experiência do corpo do colonizador, mas também, e muito significativamente, ao sentimento de saudade, central na cultura portuguesa; por outro lado, defende que a centralidade narrativa do telefone como único meio de transmissão de pós-memória introduz um corte na convenção literária portuguesa que privilegia a escrita como testemunho, validando a oralidade, muito tributária para a génese das literaturas africanas. |