Crossed Memories of the Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Fights: from the Empire to the Poscolonial States
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.44.2019.24347Keywords:
Colonialism, Anticolonialism, Historical Memory, Politics of Memory, Portugal, AfricaAbstract
In 1974/75, the end of a cycle of armed conflict between the Portuguese state and the African liberation movements would lead to two important changes: in Portugal, the break with the Estado Novo dictatorship; in the former African colonies, the emergence of a set of new nations marked by the anticolonialism. This article proposes to examine the memory of colonial war in Portugal confronting it with a wider colonial history, marked by a memorial selectivity that tends to erase the violent dimension of the process. These «politics of silence» are confronted with the «politics of exaltation» of the national liberation struggles that, from the former colonized territories, were instituting alternative regimes of historicity and memory horizons.Downloads
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2019-12-28
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Cardina, M., & Sena Martins, B. (2019). Crossed Memories of the Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Fights: from the Empire to the Poscolonial States. ENDOXA, (44), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.44.2019.24347
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Collective Memories: Policies, Uses and Representations
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