Close to half a century after their end, the colonial wars Portugal waged in a desperate and doomed attempt to hold on to its African colonies in 1974 remain still largely unprocessed. This article examines the multiple silences surrounding the colonial wars and the 25th April Revolution in Portugal drawing from the concept of postmemory and the notion of a traumatic past whose wounds have never healed. It argues that silence in the end does nothing more than allow those open wounds to go on festering. The combined silence over the dictatorship and the colonial wars was never more than a mild palliative, yet another self-delusion the nation allowed itself as it attempted to put on its new European costume. The article focuses on two films, ...
In the years immediately following the end of Portuguese colonisation in Africa in 1975, a silence a...
16 de Junho de 1960. Massacre de Mueda, Moçambique in Miguel Cardina & Bruno Sena Martins (eds), As ...
Este artigo apresenta um estudo sobre a memória cultural (Aleida e Jan Assmann) e pós-memória (Hirsc...
MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624)The article discusses the concept of...
The article takes into account some dominant theories about the controversial concept of post- memo...
A partir de 1961 tienen lugar las guerras coloniales entre Portugal y los diferentes movimientos de ...
[Excerto] O aniversário dos quarenta anos das independências africanas é o pretexto para analisar co...
MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624)The article discusses the Portuguese...
O aniversário dos quarenta anos das independências africanas é o pretexto para analisar como é que o...
The silencing of the Portuguese Colonial War/Wars of Liberation (1961-1974) is one of the cornerston...
International audienceIn Portugal, until recently, the official memory of the Empire has overlooked ...
The central role in Portuguese political culture of the identification of Portugal as a colonizing ...
O texto apresenta uma visão global sobre a forma como a ficção cinematográfica portuguesa, produzida...
MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624)Este artigo oferece as narrativas bi...
This article analyses Portuguese documentary films from the 1990s, when public discussions about the...
In the years immediately following the end of Portuguese colonisation in Africa in 1975, a silence a...
16 de Junho de 1960. Massacre de Mueda, Moçambique in Miguel Cardina & Bruno Sena Martins (eds), As ...
Este artigo apresenta um estudo sobre a memória cultural (Aleida e Jan Assmann) e pós-memória (Hirsc...
MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624)The article discusses the concept of...
The article takes into account some dominant theories about the controversial concept of post- memo...
A partir de 1961 tienen lugar las guerras coloniales entre Portugal y los diferentes movimientos de ...
[Excerto] O aniversário dos quarenta anos das independências africanas é o pretexto para analisar co...
MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624)The article discusses the Portuguese...
O aniversário dos quarenta anos das independências africanas é o pretexto para analisar como é que o...
The silencing of the Portuguese Colonial War/Wars of Liberation (1961-1974) is one of the cornerston...
International audienceIn Portugal, until recently, the official memory of the Empire has overlooked ...
The central role in Portuguese political culture of the identification of Portugal as a colonizing ...
O texto apresenta uma visão global sobre a forma como a ficção cinematográfica portuguesa, produzida...
MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624)Este artigo oferece as narrativas bi...
This article analyses Portuguese documentary films from the 1990s, when public discussions about the...
In the years immediately following the end of Portuguese colonisation in Africa in 1975, a silence a...
16 de Junho de 1960. Massacre de Mueda, Moçambique in Miguel Cardina & Bruno Sena Martins (eds), As ...
Este artigo apresenta um estudo sobre a memória cultural (Aleida e Jan Assmann) e pós-memória (Hirsc...