To Link Life Histories to Historical Narratives

To Link Life Histories to Historical Narratives

Au Portugal la mémoire officielle de l’empire a jusqu’à très récemment occulté les passés violents plus récents de la dictature et de la décolonisation (guerre coloniale, rapatriement) moins fédérateurs pour l’identité collective. Cet article éclaire dans une première partie le tournant sociétal et...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Santos, Irène Dos
Formáid: Article ou chapitre numérique
Teanga:Anglais
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Conserveries mémorielles 2022
Ábhair:
historiographie
rapport au passé
empire colonial
décolonisation
mémoires publiques
études postcoloniales
étude de cas
In Portugal
until recently
the official memory of the Empire has overlooked the violent pasts under the dictatorship and decolonization – colonial war
repatriation - less unifying for the national collective identity. The first part of this article focuses on the societal and academic shift resulting from the emergence of memorializing counter-narratives. The aim is to identify the players in these proc
in this new political relationship with the past
the memory of dictatorship can be imbricated with that of decolonization. Studying current research — historiography
postcolonial studies — also highlights divergences in Portuguese academia on the role of history and memory — postmemory in particular — in the interpretation of such past events. The second part looks back on two case studies with a heuristic potential t
and decompartmentalize national accounts. This relates to two individuals whose family histories link them to the Portuguese colonial presence in Angola
involved in writing about the past through eye-witness accounts or scientific research: an exiled in France
grandson of a colonial administrator and son of an anticolonial and antifascist militant actions; and the daughter of an interracial couple of retornados undertaking research on Angola. These case studies also reveal the complexity of social
political and ethno-racial affiliations in this postcolonial post-imperial context and challenge the social hierarchization inherited from the past and the silence surrounding this heritage.
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