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

• Superior document: Memory Studies: Global Constellations Series
• Author: Cardina, Miguel.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Memory Studies: Global Constellations Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)

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.