Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa: New African Histories
Editat de Derek Peterson, Giacomo Macola, Derek R. Petersonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2009
The
study
of
intellectual
history
in
Africa
is
in
its
infancy.
We
know
very
little
about
what
Africa’s
thinkers
made
of
their
times.Recasting
the
Pastbrings
one
field
of
intellectual
endeavor
into
view.
The
book
takes
its
place
alongside
a
small
but
growing
literature
that
highlights
how,
in
autobiographies,
historical
writing,
fiction,
and
other
literary
genres,
African
writers
intervened
creatively
in
their
political
world.
The past has already been worked over by the African interpreters that the present volume brings into view. African brokers—pastors, journalists, kingmakers, religious dissidents, politicians, entrepreneurs all—have been doing research, conducting interviews, reading archives, and presenting their results to critical audiences. Their scholarly work makes it impossible to think of African history as an inert entity awaiting the attention of professional historians. Professionals take their place in a broader field of interpretation, where Africans are already reifying, editing, and representing the past.
The essays collected inRecasting the Paststudy the warp and weft of Africa’s homespun historical work. Contributors trace the strands of discourse from which historical entrepreneurs drew, highlighting the sources of inspiration and reference that enlivened their work. By illuminating the conventions of the past, Africa’s history writers set their contemporary constituents on a path toward a particular future. History writing was a means by which entrepreneurs conjured up constituencies, claimed legitimate authority, and mobilized people around a cause. By illuminating the spheres of debate in which Africa’s own scholars participated,Recasting the Pastrepositions the practice of modern history.
The past has already been worked over by the African interpreters that the present volume brings into view. African brokers—pastors, journalists, kingmakers, religious dissidents, politicians, entrepreneurs all—have been doing research, conducting interviews, reading archives, and presenting their results to critical audiences. Their scholarly work makes it impossible to think of African history as an inert entity awaiting the attention of professional historians. Professionals take their place in a broader field of interpretation, where Africans are already reifying, editing, and representing the past.
The essays collected inRecasting the Paststudy the warp and weft of Africa’s homespun historical work. Contributors trace the strands of discourse from which historical entrepreneurs drew, highlighting the sources of inspiration and reference that enlivened their work. By illuminating the conventions of the past, Africa’s history writers set their contemporary constituents on a path toward a particular future. History writing was a means by which entrepreneurs conjured up constituencies, claimed legitimate authority, and mobilized people around a cause. By illuminating the spheres of debate in which Africa’s own scholars participated,Recasting the Pastrepositions the practice of modern history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780821418796
ISBN-10: 0821418793
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 5
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria New African Histories
ISBN-10: 0821418793
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 5
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria New African Histories
Recenzii
“As
a
group,
the
contributors
and
editors
ofRecasting
the
Pastconstitute
one
of
the
most
impressive
cohorts
of
scholars
brought
together
in
a
collective
volume
project
in
the
past
three
decades.
This
work
will
be
required
reading
for
any
individual
venturing
into
serious
study
of
Africa’s
past.”—David
William
Cohen,
The
University
of
Michigan
“Collectively
the
authors
ofRecasting
the
Pastare
to
be
saluted,
as
are
their
editors.
As
an
assertion
of
the
vibrancy
of
Christian
Africa’s
history
of
ideas
in
the
twentieth
century,
this
collection
could
hardly
be
richer.”—International
Journal
of
African
Historical
Studies
“This
collection
accomplishes
what
no
monograph
could
because
these
nuanced
inquiries
each
require
deep
expertise.
The
variety
of
questions
posed
here
suggests
many
ways
that
professional
historians
could
appreciate
more
fully
the
production
of
historical
knowledge
in
Africa.
Students
of
African
intellectual
history
will
come
away
better
able
to
appreciate
the
deep
and
multiple
roots
that
generate
the
production
of
culture
in
Africa.”—American
Historical
Review
“Despite
the
study
of
Africa’s
intellectual
history
being
curiously
underdeveloped,
the
work
in
(Recasting
the
Past)
confronts
the
idea
that
the
study
of
African
history
is
solely
the
preserve
of
professional
historians.”—Political
Studies
Review
“This
lively
volume
focuses
on
what
the
editors
call
Africa’s
homespun
historians:
non-professionals
who,
throughout
the
twentieth
century,
devoted
passionate
and
painstaking
intellectual
labor
to
recreating
the
past,
often
in
vernacular
languages.…(Recasting
the
Past)
makes
a
welcome
intervention
in
African
intellectual
history.
In
many
ways,
it
is
a
model
of
the
genre.”—Journal
of
African
History
“These
are
magnificent
essays.
What
this
collection
shows
with
great
power
and
verve
is
that
starting
early
in
the
last
century
Africans
constructed
their
own
historical
accounts
using
various
methods,
frameworks,
and
analytical
tools.
It
adds
a
dimension
to
our
understanding
of
the
African
past—and
the
African
understanding
of
the
African
past—that
is
long
overdue.”
— Luise White, University of Florida
— Luise White, University of Florida
Notă biografică
Derek
R.
Petersonis
Ali
Mazrui
Collegiate
Professor
of
History
and
African
Studies
at
the
University
of
Michigan.
He
is
the
author
ofCreative
Writing:
Translation,
Bookkeeping,
and
the
Work
of
Imagination
in
Colonial
Kenya,
and
editor
ofThe
Invention
of
Religion:
Rethinking
Belief
in
Politics
and
History.
Giacomo Macola is associate professor in African history at Sapienza Università di Roma and research fellow in the Centre for Africa Studies of the University of the Free State. The author ofLiberal Nationalism in Central Africa: A Biography of Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula,he has also coedited (with Derek Peterson)Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa.
Giacomo Macola is associate professor in African history at Sapienza Università di Roma and research fellow in the Centre for Africa Studies of the University of the Free State. The author ofLiberal Nationalism in Central Africa: A Biography of Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula,he has also coedited (with Derek Peterson)Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa.
Descriere
The
study
of
intellectual
history
in
Africa
is
in
its
infancy.
We
know
very
little
about
what
Africa’s
thinkers
made
of
their
times.Recasting
the
Pastbrings
one
field
of
intellectual
endeavor
into
view.