Notebook of colonial memories
By: Isabela Figueiredo ; translated by Anna M. Klobucka and Phillip Rothwell
Contributors: Klobucka, Anna, 1961-; Rothwell, Phillip, 1972-
Series: Luso-Asio-Afro-Brazilian studies & theory -- 4
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Dartmouth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780981458038
Subjects: Portugal; Biography
Work titles: Caderno de memórias coloniais
Description: "Isabela Figueiredo's literary memoir Notebook of Colonial Memories was originally published in Portugal in 2009 as Caderno de Memórias Coloniais. It traces the author's growing up in the 1960s and 70s in Mozambique, which was then still a Portuguese colony, and her "return" at the age of thirteen to Portugal (a country she had never seen) following Mozambique's independence. It offers an uncommonly candid and unsparing perspective on the realities of late Portuguese colonialism in Africa and on the political climate surrounding the "repatriation" to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of former colonial settlers, mainly from Angola and Mozambique. The critical introduction by Anna Klobucka and Phillip Rothwell describes these historical circumstances and contextualizes Figueiredo's text for the English-language reader, as well as commenting on the writer's complex exercise of remembrance, reconstruction and fictionalization of her experience in both Mozambique and Portugal. Keywords: Portuguese colonialism, Mozambique, decolonization, postcolonialism, memoir" --