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- Orhan Pamuk and the construction of Turkey’s national memory in Istanbul. Memories of a CityPublication . Martins, Adriana Alves de PaulaPamuk‘s Istanbul. Memories of a City (2005), more than a book of individual memoirs, is a review of significant moments of Turkey‘s history, through which the writer addresses issues of national representation and identity. By analysing how Pamuk‘s book revises Turkey‘s cultural memory when the country‘s membership in the EU is considered a controversial key issue to the stability of Europe in the future, my aim is to examine to what extent the debate on Turkey‘s membership in the EU perpetuates Western representations of the oriental world in cultural and ideological terms.
- Writing the nation beyond resistance: portuguese film and the Colonial WarPublication . Martins, AdrianaLa Révolution des Œillets (avril 1974), période charnière fondamentale de l’Histoire du Portugal, marque la fin d’une longue dictature et d’une douloureuse guerre coloniale. Cet événement historique déclenche un processus complexe, celui d’une reconfiguration de l’identité nationale qui s’appuie sur une révision de la mémoire collective officielle. Ainsi peut-on remarquer plus de trente années après la fin du conflit, la persistance d’une réticence, ou devrait-on dire d’une résistance, à l’idée même d’évoquer les faits et les événements liés à la guerre coloniale. Cette résistance étant plus particulièrement perceptible dans la littérature et au cinéma, cette étude se penchera sur deux films majeurs : Non, ou la vaine gloire de commander (Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar) (1990), de Manoel de Oliveira, et Le Rivage des murmures (A Costa dos Murmúrios) (2004), de Margarida Cardoso — qui proposent une réflexion sur les questions de race, de genre, de classe et d’idéologie qui ont marqué l’agenda colonial, une réflexion qui alimente toujours le débat postcolonial portugais (tant sur les plans politiques, sociaux ou culturels), incapable de se délivrer de ces fantômes impériaux, qui hantent toujours le peuple portugais et qui invalident les rapports pouvant exister envers l’Autre.
- O cinema americano e a mentira da guerra em Hollywood de Gore VidalPublication . Martins, Adriana Alves de PaulaNeste ensaio, o meu objectivo é estudar o romance Hollywood de Gore Vidal, publicado em 1990, para examinar, por um lado, como o escritor associa a capital da política americana com a capital do entretenimento popular, e, por outro, como o romance histórico transforma-se num meio/espaço controverso na representação da guerra e na sua interacção com o cinema. Estou particularmente interessada em analisar como Vidal discute o relevante papel político e ideológico desempenhado pela indústria cinematográfica na tentativa de persuadir o povo americano a apoiar a participação do país na impopular Primeira Grande Guerra. Para além disso, pretendo discutir como Vidal problematiza a consolidação do império americano e as suas implicações políticas através do visionamento da história, reflectindo sobre como a literatura e o cinema podem ser considerados instrumentos políticos polémicos.
- Fernando Meirelle's The constant gardener at the crossroads of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic globalizationPublication . Martins, AdrianaJohn Le Carré’s novel The Constant Gardener (2001) focuses on the ongoing exploitation of former African colonized people by international interests in a post-colonial time marked by globalization. Despite the novelist’s attempt to render the complex machinations among multinationals, Britain and underdeveloped states visible, his focus is mainly placed on characters connoted with power. This essay analyzes Fernando Meirelles’s 2005 filmic remediation of Le Carré’s novel and demonstrates how Meirelles transforms Le Carré’s representation of multifold conflicts into a reflection on the complexity of the phenomenon of globalization and of its impact on the Global South. I claim that Meirelles transforms his film into a stage on which the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces of globalization (Santos, “The Processes”) are confronted and interrogated from an ethical perspective. The latter highlights the relevance of a globalization from below (Appadurai “Grassroots”) and cinema’s role in denouncing the evils of globalization.
- Diamantino Vizeu en "Sangue Toureiro" (1958) y la construcción de género en el SalazarismoPublication . Martins, Adriana Alves de Paula
- Banksy’s ‘Dismaland’ or art as an agent of changePublication . Martins, Adriana Alves de PaulaThis paper will discuss the subversive cultural and political meanings deriving from the construction and dismantlement of Dismaland, a temporary art installation created by Banksy in 2015 that addressed a wide range of evils of globalization from the effects of climate change to the refugee crisis. By considering the exhibition first and foremost as “form of resistance to sanctioned imagery” (Anna Wactawek, 2011: 73), I will examine how through the creation of a utopia in reverse Banksy (i) challenged the construction of the social in visual terms; (ii) questioned modes of reception; and (iii) advocated social consciousness in an epoch of indifference towards the Other.
- "Um escritor encara-se no espelho: Gore Vidal em The golden age"Publication . Martins, Adriana Alves de Paula
- "Burr e Memorial do Convento ou a superação do(s) abuso(s) da memória"Publication . Martins, Adriana Alves de Paula
- O verso e o reverso da medalha em Lincoln de Gore VidalPublication . Martins, Adriana Alves de PaulaNo romance histórico Lincoln, publicado em 1984, Gore Vidal refina a sua política de representação de reconstrução da memória da nação, através da revisão da historiografia de Abraham Lincoln. Neste ensaio, examino como Vidal revisita o mito criado pelo discurso histórico e analiso as implicações ideológicas deste processo de reescrita no que diz respeito às metamorfoses da política norte-americana.
- «A Resistência à (Des-)ordem do Mundo ou a Dimensão Ético-Política da Escrita de George Orwell»Publication . Martins, Adriana Alves de Paula