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\u2018A crack in everything: Violence in soldiers\u2019 narratives about the Portuguese colonial war in Angola\u2019<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t History and Anthropology<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Maria Jos\u00e9 Lobo Antunes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Abstract:<\/strong> 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\u2019s deployment in the Portuguese colonial war in Angola, in 1971, this article tackles both the soldiers\u2019 memories and the military reports about the unit\u2019s length of service. It articulates and contrasts the formulaic order of the official account with the veterans\u2019 affective storytelling, to unearth the cracks that run beneath the reconfiguration of colonial war violence in Angola. Soldiers\u2019 narratives, it will be argued, avoid the wars\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

Keywords<\/strong>: Portuguese colonial war, memory, violence, military archives, Angola<\/p>\n

Full citation<\/strong>: Maria Jos\u00e9 Lobo Antunes<\/span>\u00a0(2020)<\/span>\u00a0A crack in everything: Violence in soldiers\u2019 narratives about the Portuguese colonial war in Angola,<\/span>\u00a0History and Anthropology,<\/span>\u00a0DOI:\u00a010.1080\/02757206.2020.1786381<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n