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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.
- 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.
- Archives, portuguese film and the visual re-writing of SalazarismPublication . Martins, Adriana Alves de Paula
- 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.
- Transgenerational crises of identity: growing up as colonial subjects in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men and Luís Cardoso's The Crossing: a story of east TimorPublication . Martins, Adriana Alves de PaulaApesar de pertencerem a tradições literárias distintas, Luís Cardoso e V. S. Naipaul convergem no que diz respeito à reflexão pós-colonial sobre o que os impérios fazem aos seres humanos nos seus livros Crónica de uma Travessia e The Mimic Men. Ao centrar a sua atenção nas memórias de dois jovens ilhéus que cresceram em colónias pertencentes respectivamente aos impérios português e britânico, os escritores problematizam a crise de identidade enfrentada por gerações de colonos e que resulta da educação implementada pelo império e pelo trabalho dos missionários. Este ensaio pretende examinar como diferentes sistemas educacionais imperiais criaram e alimentaram um sentido de identidade imaginada, que é transtemporal e alienada, e cuja natureza artificial e fragmentada fez com que os colonizados se sentissem exilados tanto na sua terra natal como na metrópole. Através da análise da influência das figuras paternas nos protagonistas de Cardoso e de Naipaul, serão discutidas as consequências ideológicas e epistemológicas da mentira subjacente à missão civilizadora
- 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.