Staging of Memory

Monuments, Commemoration, and the Demarcation of Portuguese Space in Colonial Angola

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ID4603639
AuthorsJeremy Ball (0000-0001-6056-9950, Dickinson College, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume44
Issue1
Pages77-96
Publication date2018-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057070.2018.1403265
OpenAlexW2774409010
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This article demonstrates how Portuguese leaders created historical representations celebrating Portuguese settlement as the supposed beginning of Angolan history. Accounts of Angolan history presented to the Angolan public in the 1930s–1950s deliberately represented Africans as heathens to be conquered and converted, with their presence often serving as an exuberant, exotic backdrop to Portuguese dignitaries. This cultural form of imperialism made use of both traditional and newer forms of commemoration to reinforce the image of benevolent colonialism. After Angolan nationalists launched a war for independence in 1961, Portugal’s colonial narrative shifted to emphasise the creation of a multiracial, modernising Angola

Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnology · Independence (probability theory · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Portuguese · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · War of independence · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy

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