The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles
Miguel Cardina, "The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles "
English | ISBN: 1032501111 | 2023 | 220 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 21 MB
English | ISBN: 1032501111 | 2023 | 220 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 21 MB
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 decades and based on original archival research and critical analysis of sources and interviews, the book offers the first plural account of the public memorialisation of this contested past in Portugal and in former colonised territories in Africa, focussing on diachronic and synchronic processes of mnemonic production. This innovative exercise highlights the changing and crossed nature of political memories and social representations through time, emphasizing three modes of mnemonic intersections: the intersection of distinct historical times, the intersection between multiple products and practices of memory and the intersection connecting the different countries and national histories.
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