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- 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.
- 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.
- El jornal português y la falacia de la neutralidad portuguesa en el cine portuguésPublication . Martins, AdrianaIn this essay, I analyze the Jornal Português, the official non-mandatory newsreel that complemented the screening of national and international films, with the aim of demonstrating how the mediation of neutrality in World War II contributed to converting Salazar into the protective father of the nation, sparing the Portuguese people from experiencing the horrors of conflict. Furthermore, this also reveals how relative Portugal’s neutrality proved since it was convenient not only to the country but also to the Allies and the Axis forces.
- Boot scraperPublication . Martins, Adriana
- Ficções do real no cinema português: um país imaginadoPublication . Martins, AdrianaRecensão de Leonor Areal. 2011. Cinema Português: Um País Imaginado. Lisboa: Edições 70. 2 vols., 549+477 pp.
- When children of war fight for the past: mediations of the portuguese colonial war memoriesPublication . Martins, AdrianaThis essay discusses how Maria José Lobo Antunes, a “child of the Portuguese Colonial War”, besides reflecting on how the conflict has been renegotiated in Portugal’s public narrative so far, proposes a diverse process of mediation of the event through an ethnography of war. My aim is to demonstrate how her ethnography constitutes an alternative and tentative memory mapping project of the conflict (Murphy, 2019), through which Antunes challenges the collective amnesia related to the controversial event and fights against oblivion, the ultimate enemy to defeat in search for healing and reconciliation.