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The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past book cover

1st Edition

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past

Edited By Miguel Cardina Copyright 2024
220 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past 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. Covering more than six... Read more

IntroductionMiguel Cardina

Part I: Politics, representations and counter-representations

1. Portugal, colonial aphasia and the public memory of war

Miguel Cardina

2. Politics of memory and silence: Angola’s liberation struggle in postcolonial times

Vasco Martins

3. The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism in Mozambique: The war veterans as remains of memory

Natália Bueno and Bruno Sena Martins

4. Mantenhas para quem luta! Evoking the liberation struggle in postcolonial Guinea-BissauInês Nascimento Rodrigues

Part II: Space, imaginaries and memoryscapes

5. Monuments to the colonial war in Portugal: A 60-year portrait

André Caiado

6. Memoryscapes of the liberation struggle in Cape Verde

Miguel Cardina and Inês Nascimento Rodrigues

7. Historical controversies, Netoscapes and public memory in Luanda

Vasco Martins

8. The past is (not) another country: Discursive dynamics and representations of the colonial war in digital spaceVerónica Ferreira

Part III: Scales, entanglements and intersections

9. Transitional justice mechanisms and memory: A look into Mozambique’s liberation war narrative

Natália Bueno

10. Western representations of the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau

Teresa Almeida Cravo

11. Who is the combatant? A diachronic reading based on Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe

Inês Nascimento Rodrigues and Miguel Cardina

12. The subaltern pasts of the Portuguese colonial war and the liberation struggles: Memories in search of a homeland

Bruno Sena Martins

Biography

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.

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