Introduction

Abstract

The present issue of the journal Diacríticahas been organized as an editorial outcome in the context of the FCT funded project Women, Arts and dictatorship –Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese speaking African Countries (http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/womanart) which iscurrently developed by the research group in Gender, Arts, and Post-Colonial Studies at CEHUM, University ofMinho (http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/default/gaps/en).