Unfinished Histories
Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium
Edited by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
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VIEW Edited volume - paperback VIEW Edited volume - free ebook - ePUBBelgian 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, Gaël Faye, François Kabasele, Alexis Kagame, Edmond Leplae, VY Mudimbe, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, 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.
Contributors: Sarah Arens (University of Liverpool), Robert Burroughs (Leeds Beckett), Bambi Ceuppens (AfricaMuseum), Matthias De Groof (University of Antwerp), Catherine Gilbert (University of Newcastle), Chantal Gishoma (University of Bayreuth), Hannah Grayson (University of Stirling), Dónal Hassett (University of Cork), Sky Herington (University of Warwick), Nicki Hitchcott (University of St Andrews), Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick), Albert Kasanda (Charles University, Prague), Maëline Le Lay (CNRS/ THALIM, Sorbonne nouvelle), Reuben Loffman (Queen Mary University of London), Caroline Williamson Sinalo (University of Cork)
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Thinking, Performing, and Overcoming Belgium’s ‘Colonial Power Matrix’? An Introduction
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
Imperial Fictions: Belgian Novels about Rwanda
Confronting the Colonial Past? Genocide Education in Francophone Belgian Schools
Part 2 — International Resonances
Imperial Entanglements of the Congo/African Institute, Colwyn Bay, Wales (1889–1911)
Performative Challenges to Belgium’s Colonial Amnesia: Mobilising Archives and Resonant Spaces
Writing in Ciluba: From Colonial Extirpation to the Challenge of Globalisation
Part 3 — Imperial Practices and Their Afterlives
Media Representations of Burundi’s 2020 Elections in Belgium and Burundi
Living with Ruination: Rural Neglect and the Persistence of ‘Grey’ Colonial Architecture in Kongolo, Tanganyika, DRC
Cash Crops and Clichés: Agriculture, Contact Zones, and Afterlives of Belgian Colonialism
The Legacy of Alexis Kagame: Responses to Conceptions of Colonisation and Evangelisation in Rwanda
Part 4 — Trans-African Entanglements
‘Depuis la Flamandchourie’: Legacies of Belgian Colonialism in Sony Labou Tansi’s Kinshasa
Landscaping and Escaping the Colony in Mudimbe’s, Ruti’s, and Nayigiziki’s Works’
Récit d’enfance, récit de distance: Gaby as implicated subject in Gaël Faye’s Petit Pays
Part 5 —The Emergence of Diasporic Agents
‘Without Art Congo Is Just a Mine’: Art as the Restoration of Shattered Bodies
From Leopold III’s Masters of the Congo Jungle to Contemporary Congolese Eco-Cinema: Postcolonial Resonance
Tracking the Potholes of Colonial History: Sinzo Aanza’s Généalogie d’une banalité and Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83
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Format: Edited volume - free ebook - PDF
426 pages
ISBN: 9789461664914
Publication: November 08, 2022
Languages: English
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Silvia Riva, Università degli Studi di Milano