Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.
Book

Book
Politics of Memory
DOI link for Politics of Memory
Politics of Memory book
Politics of Memory
DOI link for Politics of Memory
Politics of Memory book
Get Citation
ABSTRACT
The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent, organized groups, governments, non-governmental organizations and societies in these different regions to individually and collectively update and reconstruct the slave past.
This edited volume examines the recent transnational emergence of the public memory of slavery, shedding light on the work of memory produced by groups of individuals who are descendants of slaves. The chapters in this book explore how the memory of the enslaved and slavers is shaped and displayed in the public space not only in the former slave societies but also in the regions that provided captives to the former American colonies and European metropoles. Through the analysis of exhibitions, museums, monuments, accounts, and public performances, the volume makes sense of the political stakes involved in the phenomenon of memorialization of slavery and the slave trade in the public sphere.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
PART I Slavery and Slave Trade in National Narratives
chapter 1|20 pages
Transnational Memory of Slave Merchants: Making the Perpetrators Visible in the Public Space
chapter 2|19 pages
Reasons for Silence: Tracing the Legacy of Internal Slavery and Slave Trade in Contemporary Gambia
chapter 3|17 pages
With or Without Roots: Confl icting Memories of Slavery and Indentured Labor in the Mauritian Public Space
chapter 4|21 pages
Smoldering Memories and Burning Questions: The Politics of Remembering Sally Bassett and Slavery in Bermuda
chapter 5|14 pages
Making Slavery Visible (Again): The Nineteenth-Century Roots of a Revisionist Recovery in New England
chapter 6|18 pages
Teaching and Commemorating Slavery and Abolition in France: From Organized Forgetfulness to Historical Debates
chapter 7|17 pages
Commemorating a Guilty Past: The Politics of Memory in the French Former Slave Trade Cities
part |1 pages
PART II Slavery and Slave Trade in the Museum