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.