Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa: The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994

ISBN-13: 9780415770170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 424 str.

Alice Dinerman

Opis

This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa.

Examining the governmenta (TM)s attempts to revise postcolonial Mozambiquea (TM)s traumatic past with a view to negotiating the present, Alice Dinerman stresses the path-dependence of memory practices while tracing their divergent trajectories, shifting meanings and varied combinations within ruling discourse and performance.

Central themes include:

* the interplay between past and present
* the dialectic between remembering and forgetting
* the dynamics between popular and official memory discourses
* the politics of acknowledgement.

Dinermana (TM)s original analysis is essential reading for students of modern Africa; the sociology of memory; Third World politics and post-conflict societies.

Spis treści

List of Maps  Acknowledgments  Glossary and Acronyms  Notes on Terminology, Orthography and Currency  Prologue: The Making and Unmaking of the Namapa Naparamas  1. Myth as a ‘Meaning-making’ Device in Post-Independence Mozambique  2. Aspects of Precolonial and Colonial Nampula  3. From ‘Abaixo’ to ‘Chiefs of Production’, 1975-1987  4. The Context, 1987-1994  5. Multipartyism, the Retraditionalization of Local Administration and the Apparent Duplication of State Authority: The Case of Nampula Province  6. Labor, Tribute and Authority  7. In the Name of the State  8. Roots, Routes and Rootlessness: Ruling Political Practice and Mozambican Studies  Bibliography

O autorze

Alice Dinerman