Author : Elsa Peralta
Release : 2021-09-09
Genre : History
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The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa write by Elsa Peralta. This book was released on 2021-09-09. The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Placed in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa looks at the "Return" of the Portuguese nationals living in the African colonies when they became independent. Using an interdisciplinary research agenda, the book presents a collection of research essays written by experts in the fields of anthropology, history, literature and the arts, that look at a wide range of memory narratives through which the Return—as well as the experiences of war, violence, loss and trauma—have been expressed, contested and internalised in the social realm. These narratives include testimonial accounts from the so-called retornados from Africa and their descendants, as well as works of fiction and public memory—novels, television series, artworks, films or social media—that have come to mediate the public understanding of this past. Through the dialogue between these different narrative modes, this book intends to explore the interplay between official memory, the lived experience and fiction, thus contributing to build an empirical basis to critically discuss the memory of the end of the Portuguese empire within postcolonial Europe. This book will be of great interest to postgraduates, researchers and academics, most notably the ones working in the fields of postcolonial studies, cultural studies and memory studies.