| Popis: |
When the past is weighted with private torment and institutionalized oppression, how is it possible to reveal the redemptive side of memory? This essay addresses the construction of memory from the point of view of two contemporary Afro-Brazilian women: Marilene Felinto (a fiction writer) and Rosana Paulino (a visual artist). Their creative works grow out of a process of re-membering or stitching together fragmented images and repressed emotions to validate individual identity and strengthen a collective consciousness. These works aim, in turn, to challenge a social system rife with discrimination and subjugation. From a gender- and racially-charged standpoint, Felinto and Paulino resist marginalization and transform their own and their ancestral experiences into confrontational visions rendered in images and text. |
