Remembering World War II Refugees in Contemporary Portugal: A Translational Perspective on Transcultural Memory

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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. Acknowledgments Contents 1 Introduction 2 A translational perspective on the memory of the refugee presence in Portugal between 1933 and 1945 3 An affiliative (post)memory of the ‘condition of exile’: postmnemonic archival critique and the ethics of memory in Daniel Blaufuks’s Sob Céus Estranhos 4 Lisbon as centre for transit and espionage: nostalgia, rich exiles and the figure of the female refugee in Domingos Amaral’s Enquanto Salazar Dormia 5 Thresholds of national memory: the Estado Novo and the ‘refugee other’ in João Canijo’s Fantasia Lusitana 6 Conclusion: heterocultural archives of implication of the refugee presence in Portugal between 1933 and 1945 Works cited List of Illustrations Index of Names Index of Terms