Book ID: CBB801245499

Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960 (2021)

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Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe (Author)


Liverpool University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 240
Language: English

This book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links between ethnology, museology, sociology, and (art) history. In this discussion, a specific focus is placed on temporality and the role ascribed by these different disciplines to African pasts, presents, and futures. It is argued here that the post-war context, characterized, inter alia, by the creation of UNESCO, the birth of Presence Africaine and the prevalence of existentialism, bore witness to the development of new regimes of historicity and to the partial refutation of a progress-based modernity. This investigation is predicated on case studies from West and Central Africa (AOF, AEF and Belgian Congo) and, whilst adopting a postcolonial methodology, it explores African and French authors such as Georges Balandier, Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon, Chris Marker, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Claude Levi-Strauss, Alain Resnais, Jean-Paul Sartre and Placide Tempels. This study explores the intellectual legacy of the 'long nineteenth century' and the difficulty encountered by theseauthors to articulate their anti-colonial agenda away from the modern methodologies of the 'colonial library'. By focussing on issues of intellectual alienation, this book also demonstrates that the post-WW2 period foreshadowed twenty-first century debates on extroversion, racial inequalities, the decolonization of history, and cultural (mis)appropriation.

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Authors & Contributors
Eleonora Barelli
Laura Branchetti
Stuckey, W. M.
Tousignant, Noemi
Sara Satanassi
Mika, Marissa Anne
Concepts
Postcolonialism
Decolonization
Time perception
Museums
Anthropology
Ethnology
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Africa
France
Senegal
United States
Switzerland
Dakar
Institutions
UNESCO
United Nations
Smithsonian Institution
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