Mamadou (Hrsg.) Diawara

Historical Memory in Africa

Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context

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A vast amount of literature-both scholarly and popular-now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile. It addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by first-hand experiences and comparative reflections from a German, Indian, and Korean perspective. A new insight is the importance of the future dimension of m… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Lategan, Bernard (Hrsg.) / Rüsen, Jörn (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84545-837-9
EAN: 9781845458379
Produktnummer: 20450082
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 841 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 12

Über den Autor

Jörn Rüsen was President of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut in Essen (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Essen) and is now Senior Fellow there and Professor emeritus of History and Historical Culture at the University of Witten-Herdecke.