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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cardina, Miguel.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Memory Studies: Global Constellations Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Cover Page
  • Half-Title Page
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of figures and table
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I Politics, representations and counter-representations
  • 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
  • Part II Space, imaginaries and memoryscapes
  • 5 Monuments to the colonial war in Portugal: 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
  • Part III Scales, entanglements and intersections
  • 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 and Príncipe
  • 12 The subaltern pasts of the Portuguese colonial war and the liberation struggles: Memories in search of a homeland
  • Index.