Del 65 - The International African Library

Decolonizing Heritage

Time to Repair in Senegal

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvFerdinand De Jong,Ferdinand (Freie Universitat Berlin) De Jong,Ferdinand de Jong

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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 Léopold Sédar Senghor's philosophy of Négritude 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-07-04
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt418 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe International African Library
Antal sidor310
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009087865

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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.

'This is a timely and fascinating book. De Jong understands the political urgency of connecting the contemporary debates around persistent racism and decolonisation represented by the Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall movements with a deep historical understanding of the nuances of how these same debates have resurfaced in Senegal. Through a meticulous analysis of the complex allegiances, identifications and resistances to French colonialism, De Jong tracks the re-emergence of forms of Négritude and Pan-Africanism in contemporary heritage developments in Senegal while arguing convincingly, that museums and memorial sites are a form of repair against the damage engendered through the trauma of colonialism.' Annie E. Coombes, Birkbeck College, University of London