Museums in Postcolonial Europe (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Thomas, Dominic

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums; this book examines the contemporary debate surrounding the museum and museum collections in postcolonial Europe.

This book was published as a special issue of Africa and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317987758
• Artikelnr.: 58399400

Autorenporträt

Dominic Thomas is the Chair of the departments of French and Francophone Studies and Italian at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa (Indiana University Press, 2002) and Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism (Indiana University Press, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Museums in Postcolonial Europe/Postcolonial Europe in Museums: An
Introduction 2. Colonial Museums in a Post-Colonial Europe 3. "The Remains
of the Day": The British and Commonwealth Museum 4. Finding a home in
Hackney? Reimagining narratives of slavery through a multicultural
community museum space 5. Museum Practices and the Belgian Colonial Past:
Questioning the Memories of an Ambivalent Metropole 6. Displaying Colonial
Artifacts in Paris: Musée Permanent des Colonies to Musée du Quai Branly
7. Le Musée d'Art au Hasard": Responses of Black Paris to French Museum
Culture 8. Will the Musée du Quai Branly Show France the Way to
Postcoloniality? 9. Still the Family Secret? The Representation of
Colonialism in the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration 10.
Object/Subject Migration: The National Centre of the History of Immigration