Decolonizing heritage : time to repair in Senegal
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Decolonizing heritage : time to repair in Senegal
（International African library, 66）
International African Institute , Cambridge University Press, 2022
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-280) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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 Trouve
- 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.
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