Recycling recognition: The monument as objet trouvé of the postcolony

de Jong, Ferdinand (2008) Recycling recognition: The monument as objet trouvé of the postcolony. Journal of Material Culture, 13 (2). pp. 195-214. ISSN 1460-3586

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Abstract

This article examines the recycling of a colonial memorial to African veterans in Dakar, Senegal. This act of appropriation by the Senegalese government radically transformed the significance of the memorial and reconfigured the city's memoryscape. Whilst the Senegalese government thus reclaimed colonial history as constitutive for the postcolony, it simultaneously underwrote a postcolonial claim for recognition. The article examines this case as indicative for a wider trend to claims for recognition for which recyclia seem to lend themselves par excellence. As objects of mimetic appropriation, colonial memorials can be seen as the objets trouvés of the postcolony.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art History and World Art Studies (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Art History and World Art Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Centre for African Art and Archaeology
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:57
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2023 13:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9607
DOI:	10.1177/1359183508090897

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