Ferdinand de Jong

Decolonizing Heritage (eBook, ePUB)

Time to Repair in Senegal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal's decolonization of its cultural heritage. Revealing how Leopold Sedar Senghor's philosophy of Negritude inflects the interpretation of its colonial heritage, Ferdinand de Jong demonstrates how Senegal's reinterpretation of heritage sites enables it to overcome the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism, and empire. Remembering and reclaiming a Pan-African future, De Jong shows how World Heritage sites are conceived as the archive of an Afrotopia to come, and, in a move towards decolonization, how they repair colonial time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009092418
• Artikelnr.: 66177234

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.