The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles (eBook, PDF)

Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past
Redaktion: Cardina, Miguel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection presents a critical and comparative analysis on the memory of the colonial and liberation wars that led to a regime change in Portugal and to the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000990713
• Artikelnr.: 68870116

Autorenporträt

Miguel Cardina is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was also the coordinator of the European Research Council-funded CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times project (2017-2023). His research interests include colonialism, anticolonialism, and the colonial wars; political ideologies in the 60s and 70s; and the relationship between history and memory. He is co-author of Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory (Routledge, 2022, with Inês Nascimento Rodrigues), which is available on an Open Access basis at www.taylorfrancis.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Portugal, colonial aphasia and the public memory of war 2.
Politics of memory and silence: Angola's liberation struggle in
postcolonial times 3. The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism
in Mozambique: the war veterans as remains of memory 4. Mantenhas para quem
luta! Evoking the liberation struggle in postcolonial Guinea-Bissau 5.
Monuments to the colonial war: a 60-year portrait 6. Memoryscapes of the
liberation struggle in Cape Verde 7. Historical controversies, netoscapes
and public memory in Luanda 8. The past is (not) another country:
discursive dynamics and representations of the colonial war in digital
space 9. Transitional justice mechanisms and memory: a look into
Mozambique's liberation war narrative 10. Western representations of the
liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau 11. Who is the combatant? A diachronic
reading based on Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe 12. The subaltern pasts
of the Portuguese colonial war and the liberation struggles: memories in
search of a homeland