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This article examines Portuguese contemporary memories of revolution and the end of colonialism as represented in the 2013 television series Depois do Adeus. It argues, first, that a popular series such as this can perform useful memory work in society, and, second, that the series use of nostalgia can be regarded as a productive critique of prevailing views of the end of empire. After an analysis of the early episodes of the series, and in particular their use of intermediality, the article concludes by suggesting areas where a more critical discourse of cultural memory might contribute to a revision of Portuguese analyses of colonialism, postcolonialism and decolonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes’ first work of fiction, Memória de elefante, can usefully be viewed in a comparative context alongside Spaniard Luis Martín-Santos’s novel Tiempo de silencio. Both novels represent a narrative response to dictatorship, and they display common strategies to engage their readers in a psychoanalytic interpretation of late twentieth-century Spain and Portugal and the existence of complicit attitudes to dictatorship therein. A reading of Lobo Antunes’ little discussed novel in the light of works by a comparable Spanish novelist, about whom there is a strong critical tradition, highlights significant new features and refutes the prevailing view of his early work as being postcolonial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]