The book “Exílios no Feminino – seven trajectories of struggle and hope”, which brings together the testimony of seven women who resisted the Estado Novo dictatorship and the war in Africa (1961-1974), will be presented on November 4th, at 18pm, at the Álvaro de Campos Municipal Library, in Tavira.
The work brings together the testimonies of its co-authors: Amélia Resende, Beatriz Nunes, Fernanda Marques, Helena Cabeçadas, Helena Rato, Irene Pimentel and Maria Emília Brederode dos Santos.
The work is a co-edition between AEP61-74 – Association of Portuguese Political Exiles, in the period of the dictatorship and colonial war (1961-1974), and Edições Afrontamento.
«We started our journey shortly before confinement. Our first meeting was in person, on a pleasant terrace in Campo Grande. Many of us did not yet know each other personally and it was fun to exchange our first impressions about the project that brought us together: to write a book about our journeys in exile», say the authors.
«The idea seemed interesting to us because, if the theme of exile has been so little discussed in the history of resistance to fascism in the Estado Novo, the role of women, and so many were, often as companions of political refugees, deserters and refractory, has been completely ignored. Make them come out of silence, why not?», they add.
The session, which takes place within the scope of the Encounter with Authors program, is free to enter.
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