ポルトガル植民地戦争のオーラル・ヒストリー An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War : Conscripted Generation (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

Campos, Ângela

Springer International Publishing AG（2017/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 341 p.
• 商品コード 9783319461939

Full Description

This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West's colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese Guinea), between 1961 and 1974. At the forefront of this work are the lived experiences of a wide range of Portuguese veterans, framed by broader insights about the post-war public memory of this event in Portugal. Moving away from stereotypical and polarized images of these ex-combatants, An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War: Conscripted Generation explores the memories and consequences of this war for these veterans and their society. Seeking to understand why Portuguese ex-combatants often feel neglected and historically unrecognised, this book presents a thorough portrait of a continually shifting - and at times paradoxical -individual and collective remembrance process.

Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. War memory theory.- 3. The public memory of the Portuguese colonial war.- 4. Interviewing ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war.- 5. Experiences of war.- 6. Living the aftermath.- 7. Conclusion.