The colonial wars in contemporary portuguese fiction
Moutinho, Isabel
The colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s
and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study,
written by António Lobo Antunes, Lídia Jorge and Manuel Alegre among
others, aroused passionate responses from the reading public and
initiated a national debate, otherwise lacking in the contemporary
press, with their systematic deconstruction of the rhetoric of
patriotism and colonialism of Antón...