O mapa cor de rosa by Maria Velho da Costa: Migration, Dis-location and the Production of Unstable Cartographies
This article considers the texts written by Maria Velho da Costa when she was living in London, in the early 1980s. Taking a closer look at the crónicas initially published in the Portuguese newspaper A Capital, at a time when the relationship between Portugal and its European others was under inten...
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| Published in: | Portuguese studies Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 199 - 215 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Modern Humanities Research Association
01-01-2019
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| Summary: | This article considers the texts written by Maria Velho da Costa when she was living in London, in the early 1980s. Taking a closer look at the crónicas initially published in the Portuguese newspaper A Capital, at a time when the relationship between Portugal and its European others was under intense scrutiny, and subsequently compiled in O mapa cor de rosa: cartas de Londres (1984), I argue that the process of dislocation experienced by the writer encouraged her to develop a literary cartography with unstable geographic and cultural boundaries and through which personal, national and linguistic identities and locations are seen as hybrid and always in transit. |
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| ISSN: | 0267-5315 2222-4270 2222-4270 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/port.2019.0018 |