عنوان

Cultural Amnesia, Cultural Nostalgia and False Memory:

شماره

LA107072

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Cultural Amnesia, Cultural Nostalgia and False Memory:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Africa's Identity Crisis Revisited

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ali A. Mazrui

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The point of departure of this article is Ernest Renan's observation that the secret of nation-building is to get one's history wrong. We critically analyze - in the broader and historical context of the encounters between Africans and Europeans - the role of collective memory in its four functions of preservation, selection, elimination and invention. We focus on the first function to examine in depth how positive preservation of memory can become a form of nostalgia and how negative selection by memory can lead to elimination and amnesia. We argue that both nostalgia and amnesia can be forms of "getting one's history wrong" in order to get one's national identity right. We also attempt to show how historical invention can be consolidated into a false memory - placing something in the past which was never there before. The point of departure of this article is Ernest Renan's observation that the secret of nation-building is to get one's history wrong. We critically analyze - in the broader and historical context of the encounters between Africans and Europeans - the role of collective memory in its four functions of preservation, selection, elimination and invention. We focus on the first function to examine in depth how positive preservation of memory can become a form of nostalgia and how negative selection by memory can lead to elimination and amnesia. We argue that both nostalgia and amnesia can be forms of "getting one's history wrong" in order to get one's national identity right. We also attempt to show how historical invention can be consolidated into a false memory - placing something in the past which was never there before.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

13-29

عنوان

African and Asian Studies

شماره جلد

12/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-2108

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Asian Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

collective memory

اصطلاح موضوعی

colonization

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

اصطلاح موضوعی

historical invention

اصطلاح موضوعی

Middle East and Islamic Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

national identity

اصطلاح موضوعی

national memory

اصطلاح موضوعی

nation-building

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social Sciences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ali A. Mazrui

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15692108-12341249

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y