Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance: Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic

This volume highlights recent research on women's authorship in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic, intersecting memory studies, postcolonialism, and world literature. It explores how women's literary and critical works act as cultural resistance, challenging hegemonic male narratives. Using a comparative approach, it examines canonical and non-canonical writers, including those using social media and slam poetry. Themes include gender, race, violence, and exclusion, analyzed intersectionally. Essays discuss how women's writing deconstructs memory legacies and challenges patriarchy, neoliberalism, and Western hegemony. Methodology includes comparative analysis and fieldwork across Lusophone countries, featuring interviews and local events.

Margarida Rendeiro is Tenured Assistant Researcher and Coordinator of the Research Unit for Transcultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies at the CHAM, NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, Portugal. She is PR of the Project "Women's Literature Project: Memories, Peripheries and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic".

Susan de Oliveira is Associate Professor at Santa Catarina Federal University in Florianópolis, Brazil, and Co-PR of the project "Women's Literature Project: Memories, Peripheries and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic".

Teresa Manjate is Associate Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mosambik, and a team member of the project "Women's Literature Project: Memories, Peripheries and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic".