@inbook{f7a9aa5aeba7482081dbefb66735f81a,
title = "Literature Against the Empire: Narratives of the Nation in the Textbook Hist{\'o}ria de Angola and in the Novel Yaka",
abstract = "This chapter offers an original argument regarding the contribution of ethno-history to Angolan nationalism. In the mid-1960s, a group of intellectuals committed to the cause of the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) forged a counter-narrative to the epics disseminated by the coloniser and created a new ethno-history of Angola that supported the nationalists{\textquoteright} claim for independence. This chapter examines their major accomplishment, the textbook Hist{\'o}ria de Angola, as well as Pepetela{\textquoteright}s novel Yaka, in order to understand how the myths and heroes these narratives convey have provided legitimacy for the MPLA. The chapter also analyses more obscure aspects embedded in these founding narratives, such as a praising of violence and the demonisation of ethnicity.",
keywords = "Printing press, Newspapers, Communication, Colonialism, Nationalism, Nineteenth century, Twentieth century",
author = "Alexandra Santos and Filipa Subtil",
note = "info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147250/PT# UID/HIS/04209/2013",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "9",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-61791-6",
series = "Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "309--326",
editor = "Garcia, {Jos{\'e} Lu{\'i}s} and Chandrika Kaul and Filipa Subtil and Alexandra Santos",
booktitle = "Media and the Portuguese Empire",
}
