Objectives

- To assess the impact of the Portuguese Colonial War in Portuguese contemporary poetry;

- To collect and analyse critically the poetry of the Portuguese Colonial War;

- To discuss critically the concept of modern war poetry;

- To design and analyse critically a poetic ontology of the personal and national self in a moment of risk and trauma;

- To define a theoretical framework for the reading of the Portuguese Colonial War poetry;

- To design an anthology of the Portuguese Colonial War poetry;

- To contribute to the public discussion and remembrance of the Portuguese Colonial War.