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Belgiens gespaltene Erinnerung: Aufarbeitung und Verdrängung von kolonialer Geschichte in Flandern und Wallonien
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244224
- This article examines so-called colonial discourses in Belgium on the former Sub-Saharan colony owned by the Belgian King, Leopold II., which today is known as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) or the Congo-Kinshasa. After having introduced the colonial history of the DR Congo from the 15th century until 1910, an empirical analysis of the colonial discourses in Belgium from the 1890s until today will be illustrated in conjunction with Belgium’s linguistic-cultural division and the age-related divergence. Belgian colonial discourse isThis article examines so-called colonial discourses in Belgium on the former Sub-Saharan colony owned by the Belgian King, Leopold II., which today is known as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) or the Congo-Kinshasa. After having introduced the colonial history of the DR Congo from the 15th century until 1910, an empirical analysis of the colonial discourses in Belgium from the 1890s until today will be illustrated in conjunction with Belgium’s linguistic-cultural division and the age-related divergence. Belgian colonial discourse is characterized by a historical misrepresentation by the political authorities while especially social forces have pled for a critical examination of their own colonial history in Belgium since the year 2000.…
Author: | Julien BobineauORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244224 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen |
Language: | German |
Parent Title (German): | promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik |
Year of Completion: | 2020 |
Volume: | 6 |
Pagenumber: | 23-42 |
Source: | promptus 6 (2020), S. 23-42 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 94 Geschichte Europas / 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas |
Tag: | Belgium; Colonial memory; DR Congo; Flanders; Leopold II of Belgium; Postcolonial Studies; Wallonia |
Release Date: | 2021/09/06 |
Collections: | Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 6 / Artikel / articles |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |