Capturing the commemoration : a documentary photo essay on the 50th anniversary of the revolution / Ania Gruca. Memories of revolution : patterns of interpretation of the 1964 revolution in Zanzibar / Roman Loimeier -- The voice of the revolution : remembering and re-envisioning Field Marshal John Okello / Ann Lee Grimstad -- Memory, liberalism, and the reconstructed self : Wolfango Dourado and the revolution in Zanzibar / G. Thomas Burgess -- "For us it's what came after" : locating Pemba in revolutionary Zanzibar / Nathalie Arnold Koenings -- Uncommon misery, relegated to the margins : Tumbatu and fifty years of the Zanzibar revolution / Makame Ali Muhajir and Garth Andrew Myers -- "Glittering skin" : race, rectitude, and wrongdoing in Zanzibar / Gavin Macarthur -- Silenced voices, recaptured memories : historical imprints within a Zanzibari life-world / Kjersti Larsen -- Memory, history, and the nation among the grieving cosmopolitans : Omani-Zanzibaris remember the Zanzibar revolution, 1964-present / Nathaniel Mathews -- Africa Addio, the revolution, and the ambiguities of remembrance in contemporary Zanzibar / Marie-Aude Fouéré -- Healing the past, reinventing the present : from the revolution to maridhiano / Ahmed Rajab -- Capturing the commemoration : a documentary photo essay on the 50th anniversary of the revolution / Ania Gruca.
Summary:
"This volume focuses on the cultural memory and mediation of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution, analyzing its continuing reverberations in everyday life. The revolution constructed new conceptions of community and identity, race and cultural belonging, as well as instituting different ideals of nationhood, citizenship, sovereignty. As the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the revolution revealed, the official versions of events have shifted significantly over time and the legacy of the uprising is still deeply contested. In these debates, the question of Zanzibari identity remains very much at stake: Who exactly belongs in the islands and what historical processes brought them there? What are the boundaries of the nation, and who can claim to be an essential part of this imagined and embodied community? Political belonging and power are closely intertwined with these issues of identity and history--raising intense debates and divisions over precisely where Zanzibar should be situated within the national order of things in a postcolonial and interconnected world. Attending to narratives that have been overlooked, ignored, or relegated to the margins, the authors of these essays do not seek to simply define the revolution or to establish its ultimate meaning. Instead, they seek to explore the continuing echoes and traces of the revolution fifty years on, reflected in diverse memories, media, and monuments. Inspired by interdisciplinary perspectives from anthropology, history, cultural studies, and geography, these essays foreground critical debates about the revolution, often conducted sotto voce and located well off the official stage--attending to long silenced questions, submerged doubts, rumors and secrets, or things that cannot be said."-- Back cover.
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