Hotel Europa - Os filhos do colonialismo
Event
Marianne Hirsch defines in her book "The Generation of Postmemory" the concept of post-memory as the "relationship that the ‘generation after’ bears to the personal, collective and cultural trauma of those who came before – to experiences they ‘remember’ only by means of the stories, images and behaviours among which they grew up" (2012: 5). The performance "The children of colonialism" investigates the relationship between the generations that were born after 25 April 1974 and Portuguese colonialism and what memories were transmitted to them from that same past. This is a documentary theatre performance that works from an extensive and contrasting collection of testimonies, putting the interviewees themselves on stage to discuss their biographies and those of their parents, reflecting how the colonial past is reflected in Portugal and in today's Europe , as well as in movements that demand the decolonization of the history and thought of the ancient imperial countries.
