Anticolonialism & Nationalism

Deconstructing Synonymy, Investigating Historical Processes. Notes on the Heterogeneity of Former African Colonial Portuguese Areas

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ID20087897
AuthorsM Cahen (0000-0001-7595-5280, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages1-28
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueSure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004226012_003
OpenAlexW2947131144
ISBN9789004226012
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Few countries can boast a successful nationalist armed struggle as well as a 'failed state' to the degree Guinea Bissau appears to have achieved over the last decades. In order to analyse Guinean nationalism and situate it within the context of popular discourse and memory, data have been included from published literature, as well as from archival and oral sources. This chapter addresses key questions concerning Guinea Bissau's anti- and post-colonial experience, that require urgent reassessment in the light of the paradigm shifts that occurred over the last decades as a result of political and economic reforms, continuous political infighting and violent conflicts and social (re)stratification. Thus, it proposes a framework for the analysis of these dynamics based upon narratives and sequences that take into account the complementary worlds of harsh realities one the hand, and sensorial experiences on the other that some have called 'labyrinths of memory'. Keywords:failed states; Guinean nationalism; Guinean nationhood; labyrinths of memory; virtual nations

Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Linguistics · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy

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