1st Edition
Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde A Mnemohistory
INTRODUCTION: The Liberation Struggle as a Mnemonic Device
- THE STRUGGLE AS THE CRADLE OF THE INDEPENDENT NATION
- THE STRUGGLE IN THE MNEMONIC TRANSITION
- THE STRUGGLE AND THE IMAGE OF THE COMBATANT
- THE STRUGGLE AND CABRAL’S AFTERLIVES
Building the Nation State and the centrality of the struggle
The "return to Africa" through music
The end of the union with Guinea-Bissau and its impacts
Recalibrating memory
Between two ruptures
The political transition: causes and processes
The return of removed images
A new paradigm of remembrance
The change in national symbols
The mnemonic transition: reasons and circumstances
Constructing the liberation struggle combatant
Public recognition and political disputes
The diversification of the image of the "combatant"
A composite memorial framework
Crossroads of memory
Questioning Cabral
Alternative representations
The new heirs: Protest and appropriations
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Biography
Miguel Cardina is a permanent researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is a European Research Council (ERC) grantee with the project CROME – Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times. His publications include books, book chapters and journal articles on colonialism, anticolonialism, the colonial wars and liberation struggles in Portugal and Africa; political ideologies in the 60s and 70s; and the dynamics between history and memory.
Inês Nascimento Rodrigues is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is co-coordinator of the Observatory of Trauma in the same institution and a member of CROME’s team. Her publications and research interests are focused on postcolonial and memory studies, cultural history and the debates on the representation and evocation of the Colonial-Liberation wars, particularly in S. Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.
