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The artistic expressions of the peripheries are an important part of the cultural scene in the big European capitals, hip-hop being one of the fundamental movements that have emerged from this. The slam poetry competition is part of this scene and offers artists the possibility to "take the stage" and express themselves. In this book, I study slam poetry that addresses the transmission of the memory of colonisation through poetry, enabling the understanding and definition of a multiple and fluid identity of subjects inheriting from a French, Belgian and Portuguese colonial past. The analysis of the chosen poems allows us to understand that there are no colonial exceptionalisms and that the traumas and wounds that exist to this day have a common cause, the condition of being colonised, which is perpetuated to this day in post-colonial societal relations. Each poem is an expression of the urgency to decolonise in order to better live our differences in an increasingly cosmopolitan world.
Cover Image: Dominique Barbot, Traces on the Boardwalk, 2022 (courtesy of the artist)
2020 - "Slam: periferia, pós-memória e identidade", Confluenze, Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, V. 12, N. 2, p. 135-152. Hélia Santos is a junior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds an MA degree in Sociology from the postgraduate programme on "Postcolonialism and Global Citizenship", offered by CES and School of Economics, University of Coimbra. Her research interests are focused on postcolonial studies and identities, postcolonial education, and memory studies. She is part of the MEMOIRS team as PhD candidate and project manager. She works at the CES Project Management Office of (GAGEP) since 2012.