Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking Context

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Women, the Arts, and Dictatorship in the Portuguese-Speaking Context is written by Ana Gabriela Macedo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110783428 (ISBN 10) and 9783110783421 (ISBN 13).

This book deals with the work of twentieth-century women artists and literary authors from Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-speaking African countries against the backdrop of political dictatorships. The essays in this volume reflect upon and challenge canonical perspectives on the arts and literature, bringing to light some of the hidden and silenced faces of Lusophone culture. By doing so, they highlight how dominant ideologies marked the artistic and literary practices of Portuguese-speaking women, and how these women in turn developed strategies of resistance through their creative work. The volume brings together contributors working in a range of disciplines, including literary criticism, the visual arts, and film studies, all of whom reflect on themes such as the reactions of women artists to authoritarianism, the representations of political repression in their work, the colonial war, and the critical revision of this historical moment by a younger generation of artists. It addresses scholars, critics, students and cultural workers with an interest in post-colonial and feminist studies in the Portuguese-speaking context.