Aparecida de Fatima Bueno completed her doctorate in Literary Theory and History from the State University of Campinas in 2000. Since 2003, she has been a professor at the University of São Paulo. In 2010, she became an Associate Professor, after completing her PhD and defending her thesis "Figures of History in Portuguese Literature. She became Full Professor in 2019. From 2013 to 2015 she was director of the Center for Studies and Cultures of the Portuguese Language (CELP), and vice-director from 2015 to 2017. She was also coordinator of the Degree in Literature from FFLCH-USP (2015-2017). In addition to articles in specialized journals and book chapters published in Brazil and abroad, he has participated in the organization of books, magazines and events within the area of ​​Portuguese Literature and Comparative Studies of Portuguese Language Literatures. His research explores the relationships between Literature, History and Culture, focusing on Portuguese Literature and the dialogues between Literature and Cinema in Contemporary Portugal. He is leader of the research group Colonialism and post-colonialism in Portuguese (CPCP). He carried out his last post-doctoral research at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, from November 2019 to January 2020, with a scholarship from Fapesp.

2019 - Current Memoirs of Resistance in the work of Diana Andringa

Description: The documentary production of journalist Diana Andringa is characterized by a critical revisitation of Salazarism, which began during the period in which she worked at RTP, from 1978 to 2001, and which became more accentuated after her departure from the broadcaster, when she started working as an independent documentary filmmaker. From the first phase, the highlights are Goa, 20 years later (1981), the television series Geração de 60 (1989), Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the wronged consul (1992) and Humberto Delgado, obviously murdered him (1994); the last two directed by Teresa Olga, with a script by Diana Andringa. Since 2001, documentaries related to the Portuguese colonial past have stood out: Timor, the dream of the crocodile (2002), The two faces of war (2007), in partnership with the Guinean filmmaker Flora Gomes, Dundo, colonial memory (2009), Tarrafal, memories of the slow death camp (2010), Operation Angola: fleeing to fight (2015) and, recently, Guinea-Bissau: from memory to future (2019). A look at this corpus reveals, on the one hand, the coherence of Andringa's work as a whole in his work as a documentary filmmaker in the search to rescue characters and historical facts silenced during the Estado Novo, since the period in which he worked at RTP; On the other hand, documentaries that focus on the struggles for independence of former Portuguese colonies stand out, with emphasis on African countries. Our objective, based on a more complete survey and systematization of this work, is to reflect on its role in the process of revisiting the Portuguese past in the last century. The project is coordinated with the research group I coordinate, Colonialism and post-colonialism in Portuguese (CPCP).