Abril (Nov 2013)
THE GRANDCHILDREN SALAZAR DID NOT HAVE: THE COLONIAL WAR AND SECOND GENERATION MEMORY
Abstract
As has been repeatedly argued, war, as a social and political phenomenon, strikes at least three generations: the generation that is call, the parent´s generation and the generation of the children of the war. From the data obtained from the project “Children of the Colonial Wars: post-memory and representations”, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology and carried out at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, between 2007-2011, this paper analyses the memory of the second generation of the Portuguese Colonial War, through both testimonies of children of the Colonial Wars and their literary and artistic representations of the Colonial Wars.