Introduction: Representations of Home: Conflict and/or (Be)longing: Thinking with Stories and Images

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Margarida Martins, University of Lisbon

Margarida Pereira Martins is a researcher at ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies) and an online lecturer in English language and culture at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon. She has a degree in Social Anthropology and Ancient History (University College London), a Masters in American Literature and Culture (Keele University, UK) and a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (University of Lisbon) with a thesis on the novels of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. Her main research interest focuses on contemporary literature, mainly postcolonial and diasporic, working with theories from social anthropology, cultural studies, literary criticism and language studies in an interdisciplinary approach to the narrative.

Paula Horta, University of Lisbon

Paula Horta teaches in the Department of English Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES). She holds a Phd in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research has focused on socio-cultural processes and modes of representation in post-apartheid South Africa. She has explored the relationship between the photograph, documentary practice and visual testimony. Published articles reflect on ethics in photographic practices and the intersection between memory, narrative and photography. Her current research is on the significance of Ubuntu and questions of home, longing and (un)belonging in contemporary South Africa.

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2020-03-01

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Martins, Margarida, and Paula Horta. 2020. “Introduction: Representations of Home: Conflict and/Or (Be)longing: Thinking With Stories and Images”. Journal of Literary Studies 36 (1):20-24. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/11484.

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