Past Imperfect : Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960
Onomastique
Georges Balandier, Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon, Chris Marker, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alain Resnais, Jean-Paul Sartre, Placide TempelsGéographique
France, AfriqueThématique
décolonisationDisciplinaire
histoireFiche validée
| Titre | Past Imperfect : Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960 |
|---|---|
| Type de publication | Livre |
| Langue principale de la publication | anglais |
| Année de publication | 2021 |
| Auteur |  Pierre-Philippe FRAITURE |
| Collaborateur, traducteur | "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 Présence 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 Lévi-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 these authors 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." |
| Nom de la collection | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures |
| Numéro dans la collection | 74 |
| Nombre de pages | 328 |
| Éditeur | Liverpool University Press |
| Ville | Liverpool |
| Pays d'édition | Royaume-Uni |
| ISBN (Forme EAN-13) | 9781800348400 |
| Référence complète | Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe. Past Imperfect : Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960. Liverpool University Press, Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 74, 2021, 328 p. - ISBN : 978-1-800-34840-0. |
Auteurs
Pierre-Philippe FRAITURE
Biographie : Professeur associé au Département d'études française de l'Université de Warwick (GB). Ensuite Professeur de Français (2016).
Nationalité : Belgique
