Title Decolonizing Heritage : Time to Repair in Senegal / Ferdinand De Jong

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages) : illustrations Series International African library ; 65 International African library ; 65. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Faidherbe Must Fall -- Introduction: Temporalities of Repair -- Reclaiming Past Futures -- Performing Pan-Africanism -- Parallel Projects -- Horizons of Expectations, Temporalities of Repair -- Overview of the Book -- 1 History and Testimony at the House of Slaves -- Post-Civil Rights Melancholy -- The House of Slaves -- Theatre of Memory -- History versus Testimony -- Multidirectional Memory -- Speaking from the Past 2 The Door of Return: Framing Race and Reconciliation -- Signares and the Slave Trade -- Mixed-Race Heritage and the Memory of Slavery -- The Topography of Memory -- Closed Doors -- The Door of Return -- Race, Reconciliation, and Remembrance -- 3 Shining Lights and Their Shadows -- Saint-Louis and Signare Heritage -- Transatlantic Traces -- Making a Fanal -- Tableaux Historiques -- Historical Transformations -- Ships of the Self -- Difference and Distinction -- Entangled Subjectivities -- Nostalgia for Success -- 4 Prayer of Emergency: Black Subjects and Sufi Spirituality The Murid Magal in Saint-Louis -- Citizens and Subjects in Colonial Senegal -- Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba and the Muridiyya -- Foundation of the Prayer -- Islam Noir and Afro-Nationalism -- Memory against Colonialism -- The Magal as Palimpsest Memory -- Decolonizing Time -- 5 Recycling Recognition: The Monument as Objet Trouvé -- Blood Debt -- Pan-African Spectacle of Memory -- Media Memory -- Remembering and Forgetting -- Recycling Demba and Dupont -- Reclaiming Recognition -- 6 Ruins of Utopia: Ponty and the University of the African Future -- Ruins and Regeneration -- One Site, Two Futures The Pan-African Legacy of the Ponty School -- The University of the African Future -- A Concrete Future -- Afro-Nostalgia -- La Nouvelle Ville -- On the Horizon -- 7 The Museum of Black Civilizations: Race, Restitution, and Repair -- Temporal Reconnect -- Archaeological Remains -- Time and the Museum -- Blackness in the Time of the World -- Decolonial Epistemology -- The Return of the Sabre of El Hadj Oumar Tall -- Restitution as Repair -- Neocolonial Diplomacy -- Race, Religion, and Repair -- Coda: Untimely Utopia -- Bibliography -- Index Summary An exploration of how Senegal has decolonised its cultural heritage sites since independence, many of which are remnants of the French empire Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2022) Subject French -- Senegal -- Antiquities Postcolonialism -- Senegal Antiquities French -- Antiquities Historiography Postcolonialism SUBJECT Senegal -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005006618 Senegal -- Historiography Subject Senegal Form Electronic book ISBN 1009092618 9781009086189 1009086189 9781009092616

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