Ferdinand De Jong (University of East Anglia)

Decolonizing Heritage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.

Produktdetails

• The International African Library
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781316514535
• ISBN-10: 1316514536
• Artikelnr.: 62354718

Autorenporträt

Ferdinand De Jong is Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal (2007), and, with Michael Rowlands, editor of Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa (2007). He has published widely on the colonial archive and the need for its decolonization.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Temporalities of repair
1. History and testimony at the house of slaves
2. The door of no return: Framing race and reconciliation
3. Shining lights and their shadows
4. Prayer of emergency: Black subjects and sufi spirituality
5. Recycling recognition: The monument as Objet Trouvé
6. Ruins of utopia: 'Ponty' and the university of the African future
7. The museum of black civilisations: Race, restitution, repair
Coda: Untimely Utopia
Notes
Bibliography
Index.