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Deterritorializing the Archive: Subverting Imperial Narrative through the work of Susana de Sousa Dias and Filipa César
This paper explores photography and its impact in the perception of historical events, underlining the ambivalence of the photographic image and its limits of representation while questioning the factual and objective dimension associated with the archive. Furthermore, the archive is approached as an active agent that shapes memory and identity (van Alphen), acting as a power-knowledge device (Foucault) through which an exercise of power is imposed. Traumatic events in the national memory are approached through dialectical forms of montage that cross heterogeneous times and work as critical forms of deterritorializing (Deleuze and Guattari) and reframing the perception of past events and its relationship to present consciousness.