Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles / / Miguel Cardina, editor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Cardina, Miguel,
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon : : Taylor & Francis,, 2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Memory studies: global constellations
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) :; illustrations.

"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 the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau,...

Table of Contents

• Introduction / Miguel Cardina
• Portugal, colonial aphasia and the public memory of war / Miguel Cardina
• Politics of memory and silence: Angola's liberation struggle in postcolonial times / Vasco Martins
• The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism in Mozambique: the war veterans as remains of memory / Nata´lia Bueno and Bruno Sena Martins
• Mantenhas para quem luta! : Evoking the liberation struggle in postcolonial Guinea-Bissau / Ine^s Nascimento Rodrigues
• Monuments to the colonial war: a 60-year portrait / Andre´ Caiado
• Memoryscapes of the liberation struggle in Cape Verde / Miguel Cardina and Ine^s Nascimento Rodrigues
• Historical controversies, netoscapes and public memory in Luanda / Vasco Martins
• The past is (not) another country: discursive dynamics and representations of the colonial war in digital space / Vero´nica Ferreira
• Transitional justice mechanisms and memory : a look into Mozambique's liberation war narrative / Nata´lia Bueno
• Western representations of the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau / Teresa Almeida Cravo
• Who is the combatant? A diachronic reading based on Cape Verde and Sa~o Tome´ e Pri´ncipe / Ine^s Nascimento Rodrigues and Miguel Cardina
• The subaltern pasts of the Portuguese colonial war and the liberation struggles: memories in search of a homeland / Bruno Sena Martins.