Raquel Ribeiro
Raquel Ribeiro (Oporto, 1980) is a Portuguese researcher, journalist and writer. She is a Lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Edinburgh, since August 2014.
She completed her PhD in 2009 at the University of Liverpool, with a thesis on the idea of Europe in the works of Maria Gabriela Llansol, entitled "Europe, edenic space - a literary cartography in the works of Maria Gabriela Llansol."
As the first recipient in the Humanities of the Nottingham Advanced Research Fellow (NARF) at the University of Nottingham, she developed the postdoctoral project War Wounds: Cultural Representations of the Cuban intervention in the Angolan Civil War, which analyses Cuban and Angolan cinema and literature of the Cuban presence in the Angolan civil war (1975-1991).
She is now preparing a monograph entitled "The Angolan syndrome? Cuban literature and film of the Angolan civil war". This book analyses, from a socio-cultural perspective and in the realm of Memory Studies, the impact of the Cuban presence in Angola from 1975 to 1991. That presence left an extraordinary combination of a collective sense of heroism and pride for the participation in Angola, and individual (private) expressions of trauma and resentment. My thesis is that these public and private manifestations, although seemingly contradictory, contribute to current trends in Memory Studies which question what happens when different histories confront each other in the public sphere.
Raquel is also a permanent arts freelance correspondent for the Portuguese newspaper Público. As a creative writer, she published the novels "Este Samba no Escuro" (Lisboa: Tinta da China, 2013) and "Europa" (Oporto: Asa, 2002), under the pseudonym Maria David, and several short stories, namely, "é perigoso ser feliz duas vezes", at Granta Portugal, vol. 2, in 2013.
She completed her PhD in 2009 at the University of Liverpool, with a thesis on the idea of Europe in the works of Maria Gabriela Llansol, entitled "Europe, edenic space - a literary cartography in the works of Maria Gabriela Llansol."
As the first recipient in the Humanities of the Nottingham Advanced Research Fellow (NARF) at the University of Nottingham, she developed the postdoctoral project War Wounds: Cultural Representations of the Cuban intervention in the Angolan Civil War, which analyses Cuban and Angolan cinema and literature of the Cuban presence in the Angolan civil war (1975-1991).
She is now preparing a monograph entitled "The Angolan syndrome? Cuban literature and film of the Angolan civil war". This book analyses, from a socio-cultural perspective and in the realm of Memory Studies, the impact of the Cuban presence in Angola from 1975 to 1991. That presence left an extraordinary combination of a collective sense of heroism and pride for the participation in Angola, and individual (private) expressions of trauma and resentment. My thesis is that these public and private manifestations, although seemingly contradictory, contribute to current trends in Memory Studies which question what happens when different histories confront each other in the public sphere.
Raquel is also a permanent arts freelance correspondent for the Portuguese newspaper Público. As a creative writer, she published the novels "Este Samba no Escuro" (Lisboa: Tinta da China, 2013) and "Europa" (Oporto: Asa, 2002), under the pseudonym Maria David, and several short stories, namely, "é perigoso ser feliz duas vezes", at Granta Portugal, vol. 2, in 2013.
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Ribeiro, R 2016, 'Angola, a nation in pieces in José Eduardo Agualusa’s Estação das chuvas' Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 57-72.
Ribeiro, R 2016, 'Angola, a nation in pieces in José Eduardo Agualusa’s Estação das chuvas' Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 57-72.