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Korte beschrijving/Annotatie

Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium

Tekst achterflap

Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The contributing authors approach colonial legacies from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine how literature, politics, the arts, the press, cinema, museal practices, architecture, and language policies – but also justice and ethics – have been used to critically revisit this period of African and European history. Whilst engaging with significant figures such as Sammy Baloji, Chokri Ben Chikha, Alexis Kagame, Edmond Leplae, Joseph Ndwaniye, and Sony Labou Tansi, this book also analyses the role of places such as the AfricaMuseum, Bujumbura, Colwyn Bay, Kongolo, and the Virunga Park to appraise the links between memory and the development of a postcolonial present.

Slogan/Promotie

Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The contributing authors approach colonial legacies from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine how literature, politics, the arts, the press, cinema, museal practices, architecture, and language policies – but also justice and ethics – have been used to critically revisit this period of African and European history. Whilst engaging with significant figures such as Sammy Baloji, Chokri Ben Chikha, Alexis Kagame, Edmond Leplae, Joseph Ndwaniye, and Sony Labou Tansi, this book also analyses the role of places such as the AfricaMuseum, Bujumbura, Colwyn Bay, Kongolo, and the Virunga Park to appraise the links between memory and the development of a postcolonial present.

Biografie

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture is a professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick.

Inhoudsopgave

Acknowledgements Thinking, Performing, and Overcoming Belgium’s ‘Colonial Power Matrix’? An Introduction Pierre-Philippe Fraiture Part 1 — Regimes of Knowledge and Decolonisation Must Leopold Fall? The Renovation of the AfricaMuseum and Belgium’s Place in International Debates on the Decolonisation of Public Heritage Dónal Hassett Imperial Fictions: Belgian Novels about Rwanda Nicki Hitchcott Confronting the Colonial Past? Genocide Education in Francophone Belgian Schools Catherine Gilbert Part 2 — International Resonances Imperial Entanglements of the Congo/African Institute, Colwyn Bay, Wales (1889–1911) Robert Burroughs Performative Challenges to Belgium’s Colonial Amnesia: Mobilising Archives and Resonant Spaces Yvette Hutchison Writing in Ciluba: From Colonial Extirpation to the Challenge of Globalisation Albert Kasanda Part 3 — Imperial Practices and Their Afterlives Media Representations of Burundi’s 2020 Elections in Belgium and Burundi Caroline Williamson Sinalo Living with Ruination: Rural Neglect and the Persistence of ‘Grey’ Colonial Architecture in Kongolo, Tanganyika, DRC Reuben A. Loffman Cash Crops and Clichés: Agriculture, Contact Zones, and Afterlives of Belgian Colonialism Sarah Arens The Legacy of Alexis Kagame: Responses to Conceptions of Colonisation and Evangelisation in Rwanda Chantal Gishoma Part 4 — Trans-African Entanglements ‘Depuis la Flamandchourie’: Legacies of Belgian Colonialism in Sony Labou Tansi’s Kinshasa Sky Herington Landscaping and Escaping the Colony in Mudimbe’s, Ruti’s, and Nayigiziki’s Works’ Maëline Le Lay Récit d’enfance, récit de distance: Gaby as implicated subject in Gaël Faye’s Petit Pays Hannah Grayson Part 5 —The Emergence of Diasporic Agents ‘Without Art Congo Is Just a Mine’: Art as the Restoration of Shattered Bodies Bambi Ceuppens From Leopold III’s Masters of the Congo Jungle to Contemporary Congolese Eco-Cinema: Postcolonial Resonance Matthias De Groof Tracking the Potholes of Colonial History: Sinzo Aanza’s Généalogie d’une banalité and Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 Pierre-Philippe Fraiture Bibliography About the authors Index

Details

EAN :9789462703575
Uitgever :Universitaire Pers Leuven
Publicatie datum :  01-12-2022
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal :Engels
Hoogte :234 mm
Breedte :156 mm
Dikte :23 mm
Gewicht :653 gr
Status : Bestelbaar
Aantal pagina's :440
Keywords :  belgian imperialism;burundi;colonial memory;drc;postcolonial culture;rwanda