This article analyses the production of an anti-anticolonial memoryscape in Cape Verde in the 1990s. We will show how this process is bound up with a mnemonic transition that accompanied the economic and political transition taking place in the country and also marked by changes occurring internationally in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the global expansion of multipartidarism. Proposing a broadening of the concept of memoryscape, we will examine the alterations produced in the public space, in the national symbols and in the valorization of events and personages that have marked the history of the archipelago. We find that they produce a mnemopolitical imaginary different from the anticolonial legitimacy that had emerged from a victorious liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism and became hegemonic immediately after independence (1975–1991).
Memórias amnésicas? Nação, discurso político e representações do passado colonial* Amnesic Memories? Nation, political discourse and representations of the colonial past Mémoires amnésiques? Nation, discours politique et représentations du passé coloniale
MiGuEL CARDiNA Guerra à guerra. Violência e anticolonialismo nas oposições ao Estado Novo 1 Durante a década de sessenta, numa altura em que o mundo ia assistindo à consolida ção triunfante dos independentismos anticoloniais, a ditadura portuguesa persistia em manter o seu domínio ultramarino. Apesar de limitados nos seus direitos de expressão e associação, alguns sectores da sociedade foram construindo um horizonte de inter venção fortemente crítico do colonialismo do regime. este texto pretende caracterizar a prática e o discurso de uma destas áreas, no caso a pulverizada corrente maoísta, contextualizando previamente a ideia de violência nas leituras sobre os "longos anos sessenta" e a especificidade do maoísmo emergente nesse tempo.
Memória e actualidade dos movimentos estudantis Memórias incómodas e rasura do tempo: Movimentos estudantis e praxe académica no declínio do Estado Novo Awkward Memories and Time Erasure: Student Movements and Traditional Student Codes ('Praxe Académica') in the Declining Years of the 'New State' Des mémoires gênantes et la rasure du temps: mouvements étudiants et codes étudiants traditionnels ("praxe académica") à la fin de l'"Etat Nouveau"
Focusing on the Memorial António Agostinho Neto (MAAN) in Angola as the case study to analyse materialisations of memory, the article attempts to read the political representations of this monument by analysing its main narratives, questioning its silences and unpacking its impact on public memory. To do so, the article is divided into three parts. The first section engages with the relevant academic literature on southern African memorialisation and provides a brief description of the MAAN. The second and third sections consider Richard Werbner's notion of elite memorialism to produce a two-dimensional analysis, referencing the absence of MPLA narrative and symbols in the MAAN while noting how it became inaccessible to the ordinary Angolan population, a result of more ample dynamics of state society relations in the country. It concludes that the logics of social hierarchy that have promoted the marginalisation of segments of the population have impacted the MAAN's ability to contribute to the new ways Angolans are imagining the nation.
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