Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 170 pages)
ISBN:
9781003265535
,
1003265537
,
9781000782677
,
1000782670
,
9781000782707
,
1000782700
Serie:
Memory Studies: Global Constellations
Inhalt:
INTRODUCTION: The Liberation Struggle as a Mnemonic DeviceTHE STRUGGLE AS THE CRADLE OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIONBuilding the Nation State and the centrality of the struggleThe "return to Africa" through musicThe end of the union with Guinea-Bissau and its impactsRecalibrating memoryBetween two rupturesTHE STRUGGLE IN THE MNEMONIC TRANSITIONThe political transition: causes and processesThe return of removed imagesA new paradigm of remembranceThe change in national symbolsThe mnemonic transition: reasons and circumstancesTHE STRUGGLE AND THE IMAGE OF THE COMBATANTConstructing the liberation struggle combatantPublic recognition and political disputesThe diversification of the image of the "combatant"A composite memorial frameworkTHE STRUGGLE AND CABRAL⁰́₉S AFTERLIVESCrossroads of memoryQuestioning CabralAlternative representationsThe new heirs: Protest and appropriationsEPILOGUEACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Inhalt:
Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory takes as its reference from the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and the ways this period has been publicly remembered. Drawing on original and detailed empirical research, it presents novel insights into the complex entanglements between colonial pasts and political memories of anti-colonialism in shaping new nations arising out of liberation struggles. Broadening postcolonial memory studies by emphasising underdeveloped research cases, it provides the first comprehensive research into how the liberation struggle is memorialised in Cape Verde and why it changes over time. Proposing an innovative approach to thinking about this historical event as a political subject, the book argues that the "struggle" constitutes a mnemonic device mobilised while negotiating contemporaneous representations related to the Cape Verdean nation, state and society. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, anthropology and politics with interests in memory studies and public memory, postcolonialisms and African studies.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781032208459
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781032201924
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781032208459
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781003265535
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