Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance

Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic

Margarida Rendeiro, Susan de Oliveira, Teresa Manjate

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847018865
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume highlights recent research on women's authorship in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic, intersecting memory studies, postcolonialism, and world literature. It explores how women's literary and critical works act as cultural resistance, challenging hegemonic male narratives. Using a comparative approach, it examines canonical and non-canonical writers, including those using social media and slam poetry. Themes include gender, race, violence, and exclusion, analyzed intersectionally. Essays discuss how women's writing deconstructs memory legacies and challenges patriarchy, neoliberalism, and Western hegemony. Methodology includes comparative analysis and fieldwork across Lusophone countries, featuring interviews and local events.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Margarida Rendeiro (Centre for the Humanities, NOVA FCSH) / Susan de Oliveira (Federal University of Santa Catarina) / Teresa Manjate (Centre for African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University): Mapping a Feminist and Decolonial Atlantic. Introduction to the Volume
• Margarida Rendeiro (Centre for the Humanities, NOVA FCSH): Not in the Name of the Father: Rethinking Memory and Paternity in the Works of Portuguese Women Writers of African Descent
• Ana Margarida Dias Martins (University of Porto (ILCML) / University of Exeter): Black Maternity in the Brown Atlantic: Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Úrsula as a Narrative Placenta
• Ana Raquel Fernandes (CEAUL/ULICES – Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade Europeia, Lisboa): Uneven Identities: Rethinking Women and Diaspora through the Literary and Artistic Work by Hélia Correia, Graça Morais and Paula Rego
• Carlos Garrido Castellano (University College Cork): Dismantling Patriarchal Hegemony and Neoliberal Authorship. Creativity and/as Care in the Work of Patrícia Portela
• Fernanda Barini (University College Cork): Jovens instruídas buscam corresponder-se: Traces of Agustina Bessa-Luís in Joana Bértholo’s Writing
• Ana Aires e Castro (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon): Reinscribing the Feminine Body: Exploring Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Cape Verdean Literature
• Inês Nascimento Rodrigues (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra): Ancestral Postmemory: Women Writers and the Poetics of Inheritance in São Tomé and Príncipe
• Ana Rita Sousa (Bucarest University / Centre for the Humanities, NOVA FCSH): Memory and Movement: Women’s Short Fiction in 21st-Century Guinea-Bissau
• Teresa Manjate (Centre for African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University) / Sara Laisse (Catholic University of Mozambique): Women’s Voices: Silenced and Murmured Stories between Portugal and Mozambique
• Tereza Virginia de Almeida (Federal University of Santa Catarina): Stella do Patrocínio: Between Madness and Poetry
• Miriane Pellegrino (FAPERJ Researcher): Women’s Poetry Slam Championships across Lusophone African Countries: Contexts, Practices and Research
• Susan de Oliveira / Sophia Catarina Rosa / Stefane Ceola (Federal University of Santa Catarina): Ink, Silence, and Struggle: Rewriting Brazilian Literature from the Margins
• Patrícia Martinho Ferreira (Brown University): Listening to Domestic Violence through Portuguese Literature
• Teresa Manjate (Centre for African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University) / Sara Laísse (Catholic University of Mozambique): Embodiment and Freedom in the Works of Énia Lipanga and Eliana N’Zualo. Who we are and What we want
• Luana Barossi (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) / Daviane Moreira e Silva (Universidade Federal de Jataí): The Architecture of Segregation in Solitária, by Eliana Alves Cruz
• Federica Lupati (Centre for the Humanities, NOVA FCSH): Deconstructing the Past, Building the Future: Reading Brazilian Indigenous Women Writers against Western Epistemologies
• Luca Fazzini (CEComp/FLUL): Afropolitanism and the Black Atlantic: Aesthetic Survivals and Significant Geographies in Contemporary Atlantic Fiction in Portuguese
• Notes on Contributors
• Subject Index
• Place Name Index
• Authors and Artists Index