Forget Colonialism?

By Jennifer Cole

Book Overview

While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared to have forgotten the colonial period in their daily lives. Then, during democratic elections in 1992-93, the terrifying memories came flooding back. Cole asks, How do once-colonized peoples remember the colonial period? Drawing on a fine-grained ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community, she develops a practice-based approach to social memory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520228456
• ISBN13: 9780520228450
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"