Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar / edited by William Cunningham Bissell, Marie-Aude Fouere.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fouere, Marie-Aude, editor.

Bissell, William Cunningham, 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zanzibar--History--Revolution, 1964.

Zanzibar.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xix, 385 pages) :) illustrations, map

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018

Summary:

This volume focuses on the cultural memory and mediation of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution, analyzing it's 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 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.

Contents:

Memory, media, and mapinduzi : alternative voices and visions of revolution, fifty years later / William Cunningham Bissell and Marie-Aude Fouere

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 Fouere

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9987-08-346-3

OCLC:

1046651689