Remembering World War II Refugees in Contemporary Portugal

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Remembering World War II Refugees in Contemporary Portugal is written by Verena Lindemann Lino and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110733552 (ISBN 10) and 9783110733556 (ISBN 13).

This book takes an innovative approach to the study of memories of transit and exile in Portugal between 1933 and 1945 in artistic media. Informed by contemporary debates within memory and translation studies, it develops a translational perspective on transcultural memory and explores its ethical implications. This study provides an in-depth analysis of Daniel Blaufuks’s inter-art project Sob Céus Estranhos, Domingos Amaral’s novel Enquanto Salazar Dormia and João Canijo’s documentary Fantasia Lusitana. It examines the heterocultural networks of signification that these artistic media mobilize to implicate the presence of World War II refugees in Portugal in contemporary negotiations of communality. By approaching memory through a translational lens on culture, this book also offers new perspectives on remediation, memory transfer and the ethical dimensions of remembrance in the context of transcultural memory and migration.