Shadow talk: constructing female memory of a Portuguese century

Abstract

In 2004, Margarida Tengarrinha published "Quadros da Memória" (Portraits Drawn from Memory), an account of her harsh experiences as an underground communist activist and in exile during Salazar's dictatorship. At the age of seventy-six, anf thirty years after the 25 April 1974 revolution, Margarida Tengarrinha undertook to write an autobiography, which, since it came out with Avante! Editions, the Publishing house run by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), served to publicly aknowledge her militancy. (...)