Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa

2006-09-27 History

Author : Alice Dinerman
Release : 2006-09-27
Genre : History
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Download or read book Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa written by Alice Dinerman. This book was released on 2006-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Alice Dinerman offers a detailed chronicle of the Mozambican government’s attempts to revise the country's troubled postcolonial past with a view to negotiating the political challenges posed by the present. In doing so, she lays bare the path-dependence of memory practices, while tracing their divergent trajectories, shifting meanings and varied combinations within ruling discourse and performance. Central themes include: the interplay between past and present the dialectic between remembering and forgetting the dynamics between popular and official memory discourses the politics of acknowledgement. Dinerman’s original analysis is essential reading for students of modern Africa, the sociology of memory, Third World politics and post-conflict societies.

Revolution, Counter-revolution and Revisionism in Post-colonial Africa

2006 History

Author : Alice Dinerman
Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Download or read book Revolution, Counter-revolution and Revisionism in Post-colonial Africa written by Alice Dinerman. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Examining the government’s attempts to revise postcolonial Mozambique’s traumatic past with a view to negotiating the present, Alice Dinerman stresses the path-dependence of memory practices while tracing their divergent trajectories, shifting meanings and varied combinations within ruling discourse and performance. Central themes include: * the interplay between past and present * the dialectic between remembering and forgetting * the dynamics between popular and official memory discourses * the politics of acknowledgement. Dinerman’s original analysis is essential reading for students of modern Africa; the sociology of memory; Third World politics and post-conflict societies.

Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa

2006-09-27 History

Author : Alice Dinerman
Release : 2006-09-27
Genre : History
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Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema

2016-06-10 Performing Arts

Author : Adriana Martins
Release : 2016-06-10
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema written by Adriana Martins. This book was released on 2016-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema is a transdisciplinary volume that addresses the cinematic mediation of a wide range of conflicts. From World War II and its aftermath to the exploration of colonial and post-colonial experiences and more recent forms of terrorism, it debates the possibilities, constraints and efficacy of the discursive practices this mediation entails. Despite its variety and amplitude in scope and width, the innovative and singular aspect of the book lies in the fact that the essays give voice to a variety of regions, issues, and filmmaking processes that tend either to remain on the outskirts of the publishing world and/or to be granted only partial visibility in volumes of regional cinema.

Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam

2022-12-31 History

Author : George Roberts
Release : 2022-12-31
Genre : History
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Download or read book Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam written by George Roberts. This book was released on 2022-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Dar es Salaam's rise and fall as an epicentre of Third World revolution, George Roberts explores the connections between the global Cold War, African liberation struggles, and Tanzania's efforts to build a socialist state. Roberts introduces a vibrant cast of politicians, guerrilla leaders, diplomats, journalists, and intellectuals whose trajectories collided in the city. In its cosmopolitan and rumour-filled hotel bars, embassy receptions, and newspaper offices, they grappled with challenges of remaking a world after empire. Yet Dar es Salaam's role on the frontline of the African revolution and its provocative stance towards global geopolitics came at considerable cost. Roberts explains how Tanzania's strident anti-imperialism ultimately drove an authoritarian turn in its socialist project and tighter control over the city's public sphere. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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