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| Title: | Histories of Independence in Côte d'Ivoire: An Ethnography of the Past |
| Author: | N'Guessan, Konstanze |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Issue: | 40 |
| Pages: | 278 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African Social Studies Series (ISSN 1568-1203) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 9789004227583 |
| Geographic term: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
| Subjects: | memory history independence |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426337 |
| Abstract: | The author deals with memory work in Côte d'Ivoire and bridges an ethnographic approach with the insights of newer theoretical approaches in historiography. Adopting a long-term perspective from the late 1950s to the present, she attempts to disentangle the condensation of meanings of the lieu de mémoire 'Ivorian independence' and explores how different practices of recalling the past complement and/or contradict each other. Histories of independence in Côte d'Ivoire looks at national-day celebrations, academic historiography, oral tradition and memory politics in order to understand how (political) actors mobilize the past in order to produce pleasant presents and futures. |
