Archiving the exile, opposing the silence: Memories, objects and narratives of uncertain times

Abstract

This article discusses archival practices — production and preservation of archives — in exile contexts in the framework of the project # Echoes. Exile, countering silence: memories, objects and narratives of uncertain times. Taking as an empirical corpus a set of interviews with members of the Association of Portuguese Political Exiles (AEP61-74) who were exiled in France, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands during the Estado Novo regime, particularly during the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974), we intend to explore the archive as a cultural artefact, a mirror of a specific type of mobility.