The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles

ISBN-13: 9781032501116 / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.