At the limits of memory

• Titel: At the limits of memory
• Titelzusatz: legacies of slavery in the Francophone world
• Mitwirkende: Frith, Nicola [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Hodgson, Kate [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Nicola Frith and Kate Hodgson
• Verlagsort: Liverpool
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Jahr: 2015
• Umfang: viii, 259 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Francophone postcolonial studies ; New Series, vol. 6
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Slavery and its legacies : remembering labour exploitation in the Francophone world / Nicola Frith and Kate HodgsonThe limits of memorialization : commemoration, musealization and patrimony. Representing the slave past : the limits of museographical and patrimonial discourses / Christine Chivallon ; Telling stories of slavery : cultural re-appropriations of slave memory in the French Caribbean today / Catherine Reinhardt ; The art of reconciliation : the memorial to the abolition of slavery in Nantes / Nicola Frith ; Shaping representations of the past in a former slave-trade port : Slavery Remembrance Day (10 May) in Nantes / Renaud Hourcade ; Haiti and the memorial discourses of slavery after 1804 / Kate Hodgson
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Beyond the abolitionist moment : memories and counter-memories of labour exploitation. Cette île n'est pas une île : locating Gorée / Charles Forsdick ; Multiple memories : slavery and indenture in Mauritian literature in French / Srilata Ravi ; Speaking of slavery : representations of domestic slavery in the oral epics of Francophone west Africa / Sotonye Omuku ; From forgetting to remembrance : slavery and forced labour in Tunisia / Inès Mrad Dali ; Imaging the present : an iconography of slavery in contemporary African art / Claire Griffiths ; Cartographies of memory, politics of emancipation / Françoise Vergès.
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-159-5
• ISBN: 1-78138-159-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Französisches Sprachgebiet / (g)Afrika / (s)Sklaverei / (s)Kollektives Gedächtnis
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1627852808

Abstract

Reflects on contemporary commemorative practices relating to the history of slavery and the slave trade, questioning how they function in relationship to other, less memorialized histories of exploitation such as indentured and forced labor