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| Author(s): |
Ariel Rolim Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2017-03-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Paula Montero;
Rita de Cassia Natal Chaves;
Marta Denise da Rosa Jardim;
Luiz Henrique Passador;
Patricia Teixeira Santos
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| Advisor: | Paula Montero |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation analyzes how the Angolan civil war (1975-2002), already implied during the liberation war against Portuguese colonialism, set the terms based on which the construction of a univocal nation state could be conceived. In dialogue with the literature that approaches the issue of national formation as the handling of differences, this work assesses the different narratives on the conflict. The opposition between the MPLA and UNITA in Angola produced two different, opposed forms of universalizing and handling differences, which were nonetheless equally directed towards the representation of a cohesive national identity. At different moments during the conflict, each side resorted to different categories of differentiation such as ethnicity, the rural-urban divide, race, and ideological claims, in the form of both self-representation and contraposition through accusation. Categories of differentiation were produced throughout the conflict as the actors strategies informed their political agendas. In this process, the rivals molded their irreconciliations in relation to one another. This network of conflicting narratives is mapped out in order to understand both its transformation regarding how differences were configured and its contribution to the formation of an Angolan national imagination. The analysis focuses on the turning points of the discursive regimes concerning the main issues that made up the different moments of the conflict. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/23604-9 - Dissensions of the Universal: A Study on the Formation of Nation in Angola |
| Grantee: | Ariel Rolim Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |