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A crack in everything: Violence in soldiers’ narratives about the Portuguese colonial war in Angola
History and Anthropology ( IF 0.752 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 , DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1786381
Maria José Lobo Antunes 1
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ABSTRACT

How do soldiers recall and voice their wartime experiences when the war they fought is under scrutiny? How do they inscribe the recollection of private affairs in a potentially contested colonial past? Drawing from an ethnography of war memory and focusing on an artillery unit’s deployment in the Portuguese colonial war in Angola, in 1971, this article tackles both the soldiers’ memories and the military reports about the unit’s length of service. It articulates and contrasts the formulaic order of the official account with the veterans’ affective storytelling, to unearth the cracks that run beneath the reconfiguration of colonial war violence in Angola. Soldiers’ narratives, it will be argued, avoid the wars’ dystopic potential by dislocating attention to the affective reverberation of the past and by silencing accounts of bloodshed. And yet, they are unable to fully de-politicize their wartime stories, as soldiers unwittingly disclose episodes of sexual violence against African women, hence exposing the enduring entanglements of sexuality, race and colonialism.



中文翻译:

万物皆有裂痕:士兵对安哥拉葡萄牙殖民战争的暴力叙述

摘要

当他们参加的战争受到审查时,士兵们如何回忆和表达他们的战时经历?他们如何在可能有争议的殖民历史中铭记私人事务的回忆?借鉴战争记忆的民族志,并着重于 1971 年安哥拉葡萄牙殖民战争中一支炮兵部队的部署,本文探讨了士兵的记忆和有关该部队服役时间的军事报告。它阐明并对比了官方账户的公式化秩序与退伍军人的情感故事,以挖掘安哥拉殖民战争暴力重组背后的裂缝。人们会争辩说,士兵们的叙述通过将注意力转移到过去的情感回响上并通过压制流血事件的叙述来避免战争的反乌托邦潜力。但是,

更新日期:2020-07-02
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