Books by Adriana Martins
by Svava Riesto, Kris Pint, Nevena Dakovic, Dalia Dijokienė, Juan A. García-Esparza, Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Karen Lens, Adriana Martins, Asma Mehan, Bie Plevoets, Angelos Theocharis, Jana Culek, Lamila Simisic, Mirza Emirhafizović, and Inesa Kurtinaitienė Vademecum. 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places, 2020
Words help us to make sense of what happens in the city, and the words we use to describe urban p... more Words help us to make sense of what happens in the city, and the words we use to describe urban places imply a specific outlook. This book offers 77 concepts in the hope that they will stimulate new ways of describing and narrating European cities. The concepts are less obvious, “minor” terms that can nevertheless be used to write European cities anew, in ways that emphasize the local, alternative, disenfranchised, and overlooked. Minor concepts can reveal blind spots in urban discourse, or bring insights from one discipline or language to another.
Vademecum means walk with me, and we imagine this book as a field guide you can carry in your pocket while you explore real-life urban places. The arbitrary number of 77 terms captures a particular moment in a experiential collective process among 40 European researchers during the COVID-19 lockdown. This process brought together perspectives from different disciplines and urban settings—from Lithuania to Portugal, from Ireland to Croatia.
An incomplete and open-ended book, it is also an invitation for readers to add their own “minor concepts,” to open new perspectives and write urban places anew.
Edited by Klaske Havik, Kris Pint, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner. NAi Publishers.
Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema is a transdisciplinary volume that addresses the... more Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema is a transdisciplinary volume that addresses the cinematic mediation of a wide range of conflicts. From World War II and its aftermath to the exploration of colonial and post-colonial experiences and more recent forms of terrorism, it debates the possibilities, constraints and efficacy of the discursive practices this mediation entails. Despite its variety and amplitude in scope and width, the innovative and singular aspect of the book lies in the fact that the essays give voice to a variety of regions, issues, and filmmaking processes that tend either to remain on the outskirts of the publishing world and/or to be granted only partial visibility in volumes of regional cinema.
Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema is a transdisciplinary volume that addresses the... more Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema is a transdisciplinary volume that addresses the cinematic mediation of a wide range of conflicts. From World War II and its aftermath to the exploration of colonial and post-colonial experiences and more recent forms of terrorism, it debates the possibilities, constraints and efficacy of the discursive practices this mediation entails. Despite its variety and amplitude in scope and width, the innovative and singular aspect of the book lies in the fact that the essays give voice to a variety of regions, issues, and filmmaking processes that tend either to remain on the outskirts of the publishing world and/or to be granted only partial visibility in volumes of regional cinema.
Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict discusses the dynamics of change and transformation t... more Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict discusses the dynamics of change and transformation that underlie the troubled project of modernity and shows how deeply it has been shaped by war and violence. The narrative of war, the emplotment of violence in historic and mainly in symbolic terms, is deeply embedded in the construction of individual and collective memories, but it also helps to shape the mediation of future conflicts.What is ultimately at stake here is the complex figuration and mediation of the violence of war in ever more hyper-mediated ways with direct consequences to the production of identities and processes of cultural memory.
Esta coleção de ensaios constitui um espaço de indagação das potencialidades de cruzamento das me... more Esta coleção de ensaios constitui um espaço de indagação das potencialidades de cruzamento das metodologias das Humanidades com a psicanálise para melhor entender a complexa tessitura da cultura portuguesa. De abordagens filosófico-históricas a estudos de caso sobre literatura ou cinema, ou à reflexão sobre o impacto da literatura na psicanálise, os artigos reflectem a complexidade da nação cultural e dão o mote para um debate oportuno sobre os esplendores e misérias daquele que Pessoa designou como o caso mental português.
Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe discusses processes of memory construction... more Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe discusses processes of memory construction associated with the realities of war and genocide, totalitarianism, colonialism as well as trans-border dialogues in the overcoming of conflict memories. It is based on the premise that there are no available clear-cut or definite positions to approach the problematic issues of conflict, memory and history. Consequently, it examines and articulates across several different media discourses, problems, contexts and considerations of value. Its scope is thus deliberately interdisciplinary, drawing on the cross-fertilization of diverse research methods. The book addresses a number of issues and raises questions that have been crucial to our modern thought, and problematic or even inexplicable to any cultural theory that approaches history with an ethical approach. It works through and evaluates ongoing representative processes, strategies and practices, next to longstanding constraints, dilemmas and taboos regarding discussions of contentious matters. The different perspectives from which the issues of conflict, identity and memory are examined, in authoritarian, new European and (post-) colonial contexts, provide examples of power and conflict memory intervening in discourse and areas of cultural practice, destabilizing fixed or encoded meaning. It examines how the “making sense” of our memories—so vital for the qualification of culture and social practices—is about concepts and ideas, as well as emotions and attachments, i.e. meaning resulting from effective social exchange framed by specific contexts of interpretation. As such, the book is also a contribution to a memory culture that is pushing forward the clarification of conflicts, crystallizations of tension and all sorts of threads that bind us, very often invisibly, to the past.
In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in comparative literature is a collection of new studies of Sar... more In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in comparative literature is a collection of new studies of Saramago's work, written by some of the world's leading specialists in contemporary Portuguese literature. As one of the first English-language volumes to be published on this internationally acclaimed author, it is aimed both at literary scholars and at fans of Saramago's novels, and uses a comparative approach to build up an overview of his 40-year long writing career. Comparisons of Saramago's works with those of Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez and Gore Vidal offer an assessment in the context of the contemporary international literary scene. Meanwhile, Saramago's contribution to literary traditions within Portugal is traced by readings relating his work to that of Camões, Pessoa and Camilo Castelo Branco. Other essays illuminate relationships with some of the best-established figures in literary history, from Dante, Cervantes and Dostoevsky to Borges, Orwell and Camus, in order to complete a picture of Saramago's work within contemporary delineations of the canon of western literature. The volume also contains a critical introduction that focuses on Saramago's assessment of the political implications of quoting and rewriting, and that briefly reviews a number of existing comparative studies of Saramago's work in both English and Portuguese.
O volume versa sobre diferentes modelos de ficção histórica pós-moderna e, particularmente, sobre... more O volume versa sobre diferentes modelos de ficção histórica pós-moderna e, particularmente, sobre a ficção histórica do português José Saramago e do norte-americano Gore Vidal, sob uma óptica comparada, no que à construção da memória da nação diz respeito.
Este volume discute as relações entre a história e a ficção no romance História do Cerco de Lisbo... more Este volume discute as relações entre a história e a ficção no romance História do Cerco de Lisboa de José Saramago
Book chapter by Adriana Martins
Saramago after the Nobel. Contemporary Readings of José Saramago’s Late Works (ed. Paulo de Medeiros & José N. Ornelas), 2022
A propósito dos outros filmes: encontros com o arquivo de imagens em movimento (orgs. Thaís Blanc & Sofia Sampaio) , 2022
Envelhecimento. Dimensões e Contextos, 2021
Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts, 2023
This chapter discusses José Saramago’s alleged skepticism about and resistance to the idea of uto... more This chapter discusses José Saramago’s alleged skepticism about and resistance to the idea of utopia. Through the analysis of three of his 1980s novels (Baltasar and Blimunda, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, and The History of the Siege of Lisbon), the author claims that Saramago’s utopianism is singular, as it does not lie on the creation of an ideal world as it happens in classical utopias. It is the author’s contention that Saramago’s utopianism lies at the intersection of his faith in the human being’s capabilities to change the world and on the diversity of his writing modes, through which the novelist creates alternative worlds. The chapter will demonstrate how, together with a skillful modelling of characters, the fictional writing of Lisbon contributes to design different types of historical fiction, through which Saramago designs geographies of conviviality and solidarity, thus revealing traces of his utopianism.
Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Manuel Braga da Cruz, 2020
Among the films that appeared in the aftermath of the April 1974 Revolution, Alberto Seixas Santo... more Among the films that appeared in the aftermath of the April 1974 Revolution, Alberto Seixas Santos’s Brandos Costumes is a singular case. By assuming an essayistic character through which the daily life of Portuguese people is analyzed from a domestic perspective, Brandos Costumes is one of the first films to openly discuss gender and social roles during Salazarism. This essay examines how the use of archival footage contributes, on the one hand, to the discussion of gender roles, and, on the other, to the experimental essayistic nature of Brandos Costumes. I base my argument on the premise that archival images are used to defy the authority of the truth conveyed by Salazar’s regime.
KEYWORDS: Brandos Costumes, Portuguese Film, archive, gender roles, April 1974 Revolution, non-inscription
MARTINS, Adriana Alves de Paula - The poetics of correction in Gore Vidal's Burr and José Saramag... more MARTINS, Adriana Alves de Paula - The poetics of correction in Gore Vidal's Burr and José Saramago's História do cerco de Lisboa. In In dialogue with Saramago : essays in comparative literature. Manchester : Manchester Spanish & Portuguese Studies, 2006. ISBN 0-9539968-8-3. p. 163-176
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Books by Adriana Martins
Vademecum means walk with me, and we imagine this book as a field guide you can carry in your pocket while you explore real-life urban places. The arbitrary number of 77 terms captures a particular moment in a experiential collective process among 40 European researchers during the COVID-19 lockdown. This process brought together perspectives from different disciplines and urban settings—from Lithuania to Portugal, from Ireland to Croatia.
An incomplete and open-ended book, it is also an invitation for readers to add their own “minor concepts,” to open new perspectives and write urban places anew.
Edited by Klaske Havik, Kris Pint, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner. NAi Publishers.
Book chapter by Adriana Martins
KEYWORDS: Brandos Costumes, Portuguese Film, archive, gender roles, April 1974 Revolution, non-inscription
Vademecum means walk with me, and we imagine this book as a field guide you can carry in your pocket while you explore real-life urban places. The arbitrary number of 77 terms captures a particular moment in a experiential collective process among 40 European researchers during the COVID-19 lockdown. This process brought together perspectives from different disciplines and urban settings—from Lithuania to Portugal, from Ireland to Croatia.
An incomplete and open-ended book, it is also an invitation for readers to add their own “minor concepts,” to open new perspectives and write urban places anew.
Edited by Klaske Havik, Kris Pint, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner. NAi Publishers.
KEYWORDS: Brandos Costumes, Portuguese Film, archive, gender roles, April 1974 Revolution, non-inscription
the official non-mandatory newsreel that
complemented the screening of national
and international films, with the aim of
demonstrating how the mediation of neutrality
in World War II contributed to converting Salazar
into the protective father of the nation, sparing
the Portuguese people from experiencing
the horrors of conflict. Furthermore, this also
reveals how relative Portugal’s neutrality proved
since it was convenient not only to the country
but also to the Allies and the Axis forces.
on the ongoing exploitation of former African colonized people by international interests in a post-colonial time marked by globalization. Despite the novelist’s attempt to render the complex machinations among multinationals, Britain and underdeveloped states visible, his focus is mainly placed on characters connoted with power.
This essay analyzes Fernando Meirelles’s 2005 filmic remediation of Le Carré’s novel and demonstrates how Meirelles transforms Le Carré’s representation of multifold conflicts into a reflection on the complexity of the phenomenon of globalization and of its impact on the Global South. I claim that Meirelles transforms his film into a stage on which the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces of globalization (Santos, “The Processes”) are confronted and interrogated from an ethical perspective. The latter highlights the relevance of a globalization from below (Appadurai “Grassroots”) and cinema’s role in denouncing the evils of globalization.