(Re-)Producing the Marché Kermel
The Marché Kermel was established in the 1900s in the model space of the contemporary heart of colonial Dakar, Senegal. In matters of general size and building technique, prefabricated iron, it evokes qualities similar to other structures that were erected in France itself, Europe and the colonial w...
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| Argitaratua izan da: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/bcrfj, |
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem
2013
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | The Marché Kermel was established in the 1900s in the model space of the contemporary heart of colonial Dakar, Senegal. In matters of general size and building technique, prefabricated iron, it evokes qualities similar to other structures that were erected in France itself, Europe and the colonial world in the late nineteenth century. Yet in matters of style, the Marché Kermel constitutes a unique and an outstanding monument in Dakar as well as in francophone West Africa. Richly relying on primary and secondary sources and on work in situ, we would like to trace the stylistic origins of this market, hardly known in relevant literature, and to analyse their meaning, paradoxes and ironies under the colonial situation. As a monument of invented tradition, the Marché Kermel gained a key role in both the popular and the national imageries of modern, postcolonial, Senegal. |
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