Performing Memory: Amores Pós-Coloniais [Post-colonial Love] by Hotel Europa

Francesca Rayner

Francesca Rayner Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho - CEHUM

Resumen

This performance constructed a series of relationships between the two terms in its title. It acknowledged explicitly that postcolonial love might be an impossibility given the violence and oppression that have characterised Portuguese colonial history. It was centred on interviews with white soldiers during the colonial war who formed relationships with black women in those colonies that were criss-crossed by personal and political tensions. It also included more personal stories from the generation that grew up after the colonial war that illustrated the continuing legacy of racism in contemporary Portugal.

Performing Memory

Biografía del autor/a

Francesca Rayner, Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho - CEHUM

Francesca Rayner is Assistant Professor in the area of Theatre and Performance at the Universidade do Minho. Her research centres on the cultural politics of performance with a particular emphasis on the performance of Shakespeare. She has published widely in national and international journals in this area and edited several international journals and collections. She has been Head of the English and North American Studies and helped to set up and run the University's Theatre course. She is currently involved in projects on the European impact of Shakespeare and Women under the Portuguese dictatorship and coordinates CEHUM's Research Team in Performance Studies.