When children of war fight for the past: mediations of the portuguese colonial war memories

Adriana Martins

doi:10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2022.12955

When children of war fight for the past: mediations of the portuguese colonial war memories

Adriana Martins

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This essay discusses how Maria José Lobo Antunes, a “child of the Portuguese Colonial War”, besides reflecting on how the conflict has been renegotiated in Portugal’s public narrative so far, proposes a diverse process of mediation of the event through an ethnography of war. My aim is to demonstrate how her ethnography constitutes an alternative and tentative memory mapping project of the conflict (Murphy, 2019), through which Antunes challenges the collective amnesia related to the controversial event and fights against oblivion, the ultimate enemy to defeat in search for healing and reconciliation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	250-259
Number of pages	10
Journal	Gaudium Sciendi
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2022.12955
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2022

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