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Marie, jeune étudiante ambitieuse, nouvellement diplômée en droit, est recrutée par les services secrets.Une rencontre, qu'elle pense fortuite avec éric, un agent de terrain aux méthodes peu orthodoxes, va donner à sa carrière une tournure inattendue. Maxime est un photographe en manque de reconnaissance. Par le biais d'un reportage audacieux, il espère atteindre la notoriété. En fait de lumière, c'est le froid, la faim et le noir qu'il va découvrir au fond d'une cave de Tchétchénie.Après une période d'investigation pendant laquelle elle rencontre Barbara l'énigmatique femme de Maxime, Marie, avec la complicité d'éric, entre clandestinement en Tchétchénie. Sans réelle couverture de la DGSE, elle retrouve Berdaev, le chef des rebelles qui détient Maxime.Seule et sans véritable expérience de terrain, Marie trouvera-t-elle, dans une zone de crise à la fois diplomatique et militaire, l'énergie et les ressorts pour exfiltrer l'otage et le rendre à sa vie?
List of contents
Introduction 1. Portugal, colonial aphasia and the public memory of war 2. Politics of memory and silence: Angola's liberation struggle in postcolonial times 3. The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism in Mozambique: the war veterans as remains of memory 4.
Mantenhas para quem luta! Evoking the liberation struggle in postcolonial Guinea-Bissau 5. Monuments to the colonial war: a 60-year portrait 6. Memoryscapes of the liberation struggle in Cape Verde 7. Historical controversies, netoscapes and public memory in Luanda 8. The past is (not) another country: discursive dynamics and representations of the colonial war in digital space 9. Transitional justice mechanisms and memory: a look into Mozambique's liberation war narrative 10. Western representations of the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau 11. Who is the combatant? A diachronic reading based on Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe 12. The subaltern pasts of the Portuguese colonial war and the liberation struggles: memories in search of a homeland
About the author
Miguel Cardina is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was also the coordinator of the European Research Council-funded CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times project (2017-2023). His research interests include colonialism, anticolonialism, and the colonial wars; political ideologies in the 60s and 70s; and the relationship between history and memory. He is co-author of
Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory (Routledge, 2022, with Inês Nascimento Rodrigues), which is available on an Open Access basis at www.taylorfrancis.com.
Summary
This collection presents a critical and comparative analysis on the memory of the colonial and liberation wars that led to a regime change in Portugal and to the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe.
