Revolution, Counter-Revolution And Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994

This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Examining the government's attempts to revise postcolonial Mozambique's traumatic past with a view to negotiating the present, Alice Dinerman stresses the path-dependence of memory practices while tracing their divergent trajectories, shifting meanings and varied combinations within ruling discourse and performance. Central themes include: * the interplay between past and present * the dialectic between remembering and forgetting * the dynamics between popular and official memory discourses * the politics of acknowledgement. Dinerman's original analysis is essential reading for students of modern Africa; the sociology of memory; Third World politics and post-conflict societies.Dinerman, Alice is the author of 'Revolution, Counter-Revolution And Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415770170 and ISBN 0415770173.