Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
International African library ; 65 |
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International African library ; 65.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Postcolonialism -- Senegal
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Antiquities
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French -- Antiquities
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Historiography
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Postcolonialism
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SUBJECT |
Senegal -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005006618
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Senegal -- Historiography
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Subject |
Senegal
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1009092618 |
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9781009086189 |
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1009086189 |
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9781009092616 |
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