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Author:

Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe, author.

Title:

Past imperfect : time and African decolonization, 1945-1960 / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Decolonization--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th century.
French literature--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th century.
French literature--French-speaking countries--History--20th century.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Intellectual life--20th century.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Civilization--20th century.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th century.
Civilization.
Decolonization.
Intellectual life.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-305) and index.

Summary:

"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 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." --Back cover.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 74

ISBN:

1800348401
9781800348400

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1198218983

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)