Open AccessO conceito de 'retornado' e a representação da ex-metrópole em O Retorno e Os Pretos de Pousaflores
Author(s) -
Patrícia Martinho Ferreira
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of lusophone studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2469-4800
DOI - 10.21471/jls.v13i0.6
Subject(s) - portuguese , ambivalence , feeling , meaning (existential) , humanities , identity (music) , colonialism , sociology , representation (politics) , political science , aesthetics , art , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , psychoanalysis , law , linguistics , politics
Following the trajectories of the families featured in the novels O Retorno (2011), by Dulce Maria Cardoso, and Os Pretos de Pousaflores (2011), by Aida Gomes, this essay aims to problematize the meaning retornado and understand how the label evokes contradictory feelings and conceptions regarding the Portuguese colonial experience. I also reflect on the complex process of the integration of retornados into post-colonial Portuguese society. Finally, I analyze the text’s representation of the former metropole and its ambivalent role in the construction of identity undertaken by these narrators.