at Google ScholarTitle data
Kunstmann, Rouven ; Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra:
The Memory Process in the Commemorations of the Dead in West African Newspapers.
In: Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra ; Mihatsch, Moritz A. ; Sikes, Michelle M.
(ed.):
The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa : Essays in Honour of Jan-Georg Deutsch. -
Berlin ; Boston
: de Gruyter
,
2022
. - pp. 143-168
ISBN 978-3-11-065531-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110655315-007
Project information
| Project financing: |
Swiss National Science Foundation |
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Abstract in another language
This chapter considers the memoryprocess in the commemorations ofthe dead inasample of newspapers from Nigeria and Liberia from the 1940s to1960s.At its centreare the obituaries and in-memoriams of middle-toupper-class citizens published by familymembers and the state. The chapter homesin on howanumber of journalisticprocesses, from“signalling”to“masking”to“controlling,”wereusedto capturespecific elements of the past and,moresignificantly, to guide the present and futureself-fashioning of the African elite.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Research Institutions > Collaborative Research Centers, Research Unit > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten Research Institutions Research Institutions > Collaborative Research Centers, Research Unit |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology 900 History and geography > 900 History 900 History and geography > 960 History of Africa 900 History and geography > 990 History of other areas |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2023 10:51 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2023 07:10 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/88009 |