“Rebuilding the Jigsaw of Memory”: The Discourse of Portuguese Colonial War Veterans’ Blogs

Ferreira, Verónica

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39395-3_9

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“…From 2000 onward, there has been a change in the dynamics of the monumentalization process, which has seen a multiplication in the number of monuments inaugurated each year throughout Portugal, as well as a growing diversity of sculptural and iconographic forms used. The strong growth in this process since this date has occurred in parallel with the growth of other war memorialization processes, including the organization of reunions (Antunes, 2015;Rodrigues, 2017), the publication of memoirs and autobiographies or the sharing of testimonies of former combatants, initially in blogs and later on social networks (Ferreira, 2020), along with commemorations held in public.…”

Section: The Monumentalization Of the Colonial Warmentioning

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The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries

Caiado

2021

Memory Studies

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This article presents an analysis of the monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974) and explores the dynamics that sustain its growth recently, while other symbols and forms of public memorialization associated with the colonial past have increasingly been called into question and contested, nationally and internationally. Through the semiotic and epigraphic analysis of monuments, observational visits and interviews with some of the people who put them up, the main representational dynamics of the approximately 415 monuments in Portugal are identified. The article examines the (under)-representation in black troops of the Portuguese Army, the boom in monument construction (over 350) from the year 2000 onward and the maintenance (and reinforcement from 2010 onward) of messages and visual narratives projecting a sort of imperial imaginary. This work shows how the vernacular remembering and the public memory of the conflict and the colonial past are reflected on the monuments’ representations and images.

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Section: The Monumentalization Of the Colonial Warmentioning

confidence: 97%

The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries

Caiado

2021

Memory Studies

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“Rebuilding the Jigsaw of Memory”: The Discourse of Portuguese Colonial War Veterans’ Blogs

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The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries

The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier’s efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries

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