Narrative representations of revolutionary Zanzibar

Contenu

Titre

Narrative representations of revolutionary Zanzibar

Créateur

Myers, Garth Andrew Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Sujet

Vie politique -- Zanzibar -- 1963-1964 Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Increasingly, geographers use literature and popular culture to interpret the ways in which historical events are represented and remembered. One goal of this usage of literature is the expansion of the prevailing scholarly imagination beyond western scripts to appreciate the nuances of interpretation which accompany any major world event. Here, I develop a cultural materialist study of narratives of Zanzibar's 1964 Revolution with a focus on accounts originating in Tanzania. These representations of history are assessed as dominant, residual, emergent and excluded accounts in a contest for cultural hegemony, emphasizing themes of place description and racial identity. Storytelling about Zanzibar's revolution evidences the layers of meaning in representations of history and highlights the shifting power dynamics and historical geography of cultural narratives. Such a multi-layered analysis is necessary because the revolution narrative is not an idle memory or an uncontested tale. It is at the core of many Zanzibaris» political identity. Zanzibar represents a microcosm of many of the world's most pressing social and geopolitical concerns, providing a valuable lesson in the intricacies of imagined communities and the imagined histories which accompany them.

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Journal of Historical Geography Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

volume

26

numéro

3

pages

429-448

Date

2000

Langue

eng

doi

10.1006/jhge.2000.0237

issn

0305-7488

uri

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748800902378

Source

ScienceDirect Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Myers, Garth Andrew, “Narrative representations of revolutionary Zanzibar”, 2000, bibliographie, consulté le 21 décembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/26246