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Fin dalla sua fondazione, il Portogallo venne visto, e si vide, come ciò che Eduardo Lourenço, nella sua opera, ha chiamato "insolita eccezione portoghese" (Lourenço, 1999a: 11). Un'eccezione divenuta storicamente norma, costruita prima di tutto in rapporto allo stesso corpo fisico e politico dell'Iberia, e che ha poi portato all'indipendenza del Regno del Portogallo, nell'eccezionale e narrativamente miracolosa, battaglia di Ourique, poi riaffermata nella non meno miracolosa battaglia di Aljubarrota; questa specie di vocazione all'eccezionalità era inscritta nella stessa geografia del paese, sottolineata già in tempi antichi da Zurara nella prima cronaca dell'espansione, la Crónica da Tomada de Ceuta. ; Since its foundation Portugal has been seen by others and by itself as, in the words of Eduardo Lourenço, an "uncommon Portuguese exception". An exception that has historically become a norm firstly built upon the relationship with both the physical and political body of Iberia, leading afterwards to the independence of the Reign of Portugal. This independence was perceived as an achievement gained through the exceptional and narratively miraculous Battle of Ourique and reaffirmed then thanks to the equally miraculous Battle of Aljubarrota. This sort of vocation for 'exceptionality' was inherent in the geography of the country itself, as Zurara emphasized in ancient times in the first chronicle of its expansion: the Crónica da Tomada de Ceuta.

AbstractThe article discusses the concept of postmemory, demonstrating its productivity through an analysis of the memorialization of the Colonial War in the contemporary Portuguese context. Drawing on the results of two research projects carried out at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, different aspects of the production of postmemory by members of the second generation are presented, with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on the domain of the arts.

Enfants d'empires coloniaux et postmémoires européennes révèle les souvenirs intergénérationnels des enfants de ceux qui ont vécu les derniers jours du colonialisme et les luttes pour l'indépendance dans les territoires colonisés par la Belgique, la France et le Portugal. Dans ce recueil de postmémoires, des récits d'Algérie, du Congo, d'Angola, du Cap-Vert, de Guinée-Bissau, du Mozambique et de São Tomé et-Príncipe résonnent à travers les mots de trente-sept citoyen·ne·s européen·ne·s, dont les histoires et les réflexions interrogent ce passé, ses ombres et ses silences, mais expriment aussi ses joies et ses accomplissements dans le présent européen. À partir de ces mémoires personnelles, nous pouvons tisser les fils qui associent les relations coloniales du passé aux phénomènes contemporains de migrations, de nostalgie, de racisme, de discrimination ou d'hypocrisie politique des relations entre les anciennes métropoles colonisatrices et les anciennes colonies. Dès lors, des questions telles que la citoyenneté, l'appartenance, l'héritage, mais aussi la réparation, la restitution et la dénonciation sont abordées, produisant une dialectique intergénérationnelle complexe et nouvelle qui refuse de poursuivre la retraumatisation, tout en rejetant les logiques de l'oubli. Ce sont des regards attentifs sur d'autres versants de l'histoire, forcément subjectifs et riches du vécu des autres, générateurs de multiples liens affectifs, familiaux et politiques, qui contribuent à éclairer et à comprendre le présent européen et les liens entre l'Europe et l'Afrique. Pour conclure cet ouvrage, un texte de l'écrivain portugais Paulo Faria ouvre sur de nouvelles constellations de mémoires européennes et suggère d'autres questions

In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative historiography that includes such resources as autobiographies, love letters, and cinematic representations, and takes issue with the exclusivity of Eurocentrism. Its contributors put forth hypotheses about the historical pre-eminence of emotions and consider this history as a basis for a non-Eurocentric understanding of new possible European identities