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Postmemory as a form of civic courage. Watchword: resist, resist, resist

Author(s) -

Sheila Khan

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

comunicação e sociedade

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.145

H-Index - 2

eISSN - 2183-3575

pISSN - 1645-2089

DOI - 10.17231/comsoc.29(2016).2425

Subject(s) - resist , loneliness , courage , sociology , resistance (ecology) , colonialism , movie theater , aesthetics , law , art , art history , political science , psychology , social psychology , ecology , chemistry , organic chemistry , layer (electronics) , biology

This paper aims to claim the duty of postmemory, in order to think better about the loneliness of memory and to explicit the value of the documentary, as the space and time for a reflection able to welcome and embody those absences that the studies on coloniality and postcoloniality in Portuguese were still not able to satisfy. Taking the challenge posed by the thematic dossier on “Colonial imaginaries: propaganda, militancy and ‘resistance’ in cinema”, this essay intends to resist these lonelinesses and absences, moving from two documentaries – A hospitalidade ao fantasma: Memorias dos deficientes das forcas armadas (2014), by Bruno Sena Martins, and Portugal hibrido, Portugal europeu: Gentes do ‘sul’ mesmo aqui ao lado (2011), by the author of this paper.

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