Historical Memory In Africa
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The Politics Of Historical Memory And Commemoration In Africa
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Author : Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-12-06
The Politics Of Historical Memory And Commemoration In Africa written by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-06 with Social Science categories.
Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical consciousness and the production of public memory. In particular, how and why societies remember and forget, what should serve as symbols of collective memory, and whether there exists space for multiple memory cultures are questions being vigorously debated once again. These discussions present particular challenges not only to official memory bound to ideological constructions of nationhood but also to the teaching of history and its links to social justice movements. The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics of historical memory in Africa will have relevance for contemporary politics globally and for understanding how memories can be mobilised for political ends.
Historical Memory In Africa
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Author : Mamadou Diawara
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-06-01
Historical Memory In Africa written by Mamadou Diawara and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with History categories.
A vast amount of literature—both scholarly and popular—now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile. It addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by first-hand experiences and comparative reflections from a German, Indian, and Korean perspective. A new insight is the importance of the future dimension of memory and hence the need to develop the ability to ‘remember with the future in mind’. Historical memory in an African context provides a rich kaleidoscope of the diverse experiences and perspectives—and yet there are recurring themes and similar conclusions, connecting it to a global dialogue to which it has much to contribute, but from which it also has much to receive.
History Memory And Public Life
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Author : Anna Maerker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-06
History Memory And Public Life written by Anna Maerker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-06 with History categories.
History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past. Divided into two parts, the book addresses both the theoretical and applied aspects of historical memory studies. ‘Approaches to history and memory‘ introduces key methodological and theoretical issues within the field, such as postcolonialism, sites of memory, myths of national origins, and questions raised by memorialisation and museum presentation. ‘Difficult pasts‘ looks at history and memory in practice through a range of case studies on contested, complex or traumatic memories, including the Northern Ireland Troubles, post-apartheid South Africa and the Holocaust. Examining the intersection between history and memory from a wide range of perspectives, and supported by guidance on further reading and online resources, this book is ideal for students of history as well as those working within the broad interdisciplinary field of memory studies.
The Omnipresent Past
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Author : Dmitri M. Bondarenko
language : en
Publisher: Meabooks Incorporated
Release Date : 2023-05-08
The Omnipresent Past written by Dmitri M. Bondarenko and has been published by Meabooks Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-08 with categories.
This collection of papers explores the variegated ways that the continent's rich and complex history - precolonial, colonial and postcolonial - continues to impact and sometimes to haunt the lives of contemporary Africans and persons of African descent. The volume combines phenomenological approaches that consider the ways Africans experience historical memory alongside considerations of the ways in which past modalities of power continue to structure African realities.
Activating The Past
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Author : Andrew Apter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-12-14
Activating The Past written by Andrew Apter and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-14 with History categories.
Activating the Past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on religious festivals that represent political and economic relationships in “fetishized” forms of power and value. Although memories of the slave trade are rarely acknowledged in West Africa and the Americas, they have retreated, so to speak, within ritual associations as restricted, repressed, even secret histories that are activated during public festivals and through different styles of spirit possession. In West Africa, our focus on selected port cities along the coast extends into the hinterlands, where slave raiding occurred but is poorly documented and rarely acknowledged. In the Caribbean, regional contrasts between coastal and hinterland communities relate figures of the jíbaro, the indio and the caboclo to their ritual representations in Santería, Vodou, and Candomblé. Highlighting the spatial association of memories with shrines and the ritual “condensation” of regional geographies, we locate local spirits and domestic terrains within co-extensive Atlantic horizons. The volume brings together leading scholars of the African Diaspora who not only explore these ritual archives for significant echoes of the past, but also illuminate a subaltern historiography embedded within Atlantic cultural systems.
Remembering Africa And Its Diasporas
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Author : Audra Diptee
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 2012
Remembering Africa And Its Diasporas written by Audra Diptee and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Africa categories.
Remembering Africa and its Diasporas is a collection of essays concerned with the construction of memories and public histories. It also explores the various dynamics that have shaped the way in which Africa and its diasporas have been viewed and chronicled outside of academia. The chapters focus on how public perception are used both within Africa and within numerous African diasporas. The essays are written by a broad range of authors from around the globe and discuss diasporas in Latin and North America, as well as the Caribbean.
The Paradoxes Of History And Memory In Post Colonial Sierra Leone
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Author : Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-10-10
The Paradoxes Of History And Memory In Post Colonial Sierra Leone written by Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with History categories.
This anthology reflects the complex processes in the production of historical knowledge and memory about Sierra Leone and its diaspora since the 1960s. The processes, while emblematic of experiences in other parts of Africa, contain their own distinctive features. The fragments of these memories are etched in the psyche, bodies, and practices of Africans in Africa and other global landscapes; and, on the other hand, are embedded in the various discourses and historical narratives about the continent and its peoples. Even though Africans have reframed these discourses and narratives to reclaim and re-center their own worldviews, agency, and experiences since independence they remained, until recently, heavily sedimented with Western colonialist and racialist ideas and frameworks. This anthology engages and interrogates the differing frameworks that have informed the different practices—professional as well as popular–of retelling the Sierra Leonean past. In a sense, therefore, it is concerned with the familiar outline of the story of the making and unmaking of an African “nation” and its constituent race, ethnic, class, and cultural fragments from colonialism to the present. Yet, Sierra Leone, the oldest and quintessential British colony and most Pan-African country in the continent, provides interesting twists to this familiar outline. The contributors to this volume, who consist of different generations of very accomplished and prominent scholars of Sierra Leone in Africa, the United States, and Europe, provide their own distinctive reflections on these twists based on their research interests which cover ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation, nation building, resistance, and social conflict. Their contributions engage various paradoxes and transformative moments in Sierra Leone and West African history. They also reflect the changing modes of historical practice and perspectives over the last fifty years of independence.
History Making And Present Day Politics
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Author : Hans Erik Stolten
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2007
History Making And Present Day Politics written by Hans Erik Stolten and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
In this collection, some of South Africa's most distinguished historians and social scientists present their views on the importance of history and heritage for the transformation of the South African society. Although popular use of history helped remove apartheid, the study of history lost status during the transition process. Some of the reasons for this, like the nature of the negotiated revolution, social demobilization, and individualization, are analyzed in this book. The combination of scholarly work with an active role in changing society has been a central concern in South African history writing. This book warns against the danger of history being caught between reconciliation, commercialization, and political correctness. Some of the articles critically examine the role of historians in ideological debates on gender, African agency, Afrikaner anti-communism, early South African socialism, and the role of the business world during late apartheid. Other contributions explore continuing controversies on the politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa, describe the implementation of new policies for history education, or investigate the use of applied history in the land restitution process and in the TRC. The authors also examine a range of new government and private initiatives in the practical use of history, including the establishment of new historical entertainment parks and the conversion of museums and heritage sites. For readers interested in nation building processes and identity politics, this book provides valuable insight.
History And Memory In African American Culture
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Author : Genevieve Fabre
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1994-12-08
History And Memory In African American Culture written by Genevieve Fabre and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan. The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this volume, a group of leading scholars has come together to examine the role of historical consciousness and imagination in African-American culture. The result is a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in literature, art, oral documents, and performances. Each of the scholars represented has chosen a different "site of memory"--from a variety of historical and geographical points, and from different ideological, theoretical, and artistic perspectives. Yet the book is unified by a common concern with the construction of an emerging African-American cultural memory. The renowned group of contributors, including Hazel Carby, Werner Sollors, Vèvè Clark, Catherine Clinton, and Nellie McKay, among others, consists of participants of the five-year series of conferences at the DuBois Institute at Harvard University, from which this collection originated. Conducted under the leadership of Geneviève Fabre, Melvin Dixon, and the late Nathan Huggins, the conferences--and as a result, this book--represent something of a cultural moment themselves, and scholars and students of American and African-American literature and history will be richer as a result.
African Pasts
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Author : Tim Woods
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-07-15
African Pasts written by Tim Woods and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work of writers imprisoned for their political beliefs