The Archive Fever. The “Benjamin effect” and the Angolan revolutions

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https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2016.n3.23073

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In this article I discuss the importance of the “archive” in the con- text of the current political struggles which are happening in Angola. Departing from Jacques Derrida’s notion of mal d’archive, I argue that the current political dialectic produces a distinction between hegemonic and subaltern archives, which exist in confron- tation with one another. Analyzing the subaltern archive of the so-called Revú movement, I will describe the processes through which it creates an alternative epistemology to the official narrati- ve of the Angolan government.

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2021-01-27

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Llera Blanes, R. (2021). The Archive Fever. The “Benjamin effect” and the Angolan revolutions. Práticas Da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, (3), 71–92. https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2016.n3.23073

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