Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Part One. Counter-Memories and memories of resistance
5. Chapter 2. “Some slave is rotting in this manorial lake” 24
6. Chapter 3. Transforming the colonial scene of writing 40
7. Chapter 4. Commemorating slavery during apartheid 54
8. Chapter 5. Gothic tropes and displacements of slave rebellion in Matthew G. Lewis’s Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 70
9. Chapter 6. The Memorial ACTe in Guadeloupe 88
10. Part Two. The body as material archive
11. Chapter 7. Bio-graphies in the broad sense 112
12. Chapter 8. Looking at black bodies in pain 130
13. Chapter 9. Performing the neurotic 148
14. Part Three. Fictionality as history writing
15. Chapter 10. Reimagining slavery from a twenty-first-century perspective 168
16. Chapter 11. Contemporary Scandinavian colonial-historical fiction 188
17. Chapter 12. The confluence of fiction, historical memory and oral history 214
18. Chapter 13. Cinematic slavery 229
19. Part Four. The cultural bricolage of history
20. Chapter 14. Carrying memory and making meaning 254
21. Chapter 15. Contradicting histories, memories, fictions 270
22. Chapter 16. The cultural memory of Roma slavery in Europe 295
23. Part Five. Authorship
24. Chapter 17. “From Mary’s own lips” 314
25. Chapter 18. Self-expression by black Antillean women 330
26. Chapter 19. Creating a new abolitionist literature for children 349
27. Part Six. Creative approaches to the memorialization of slavery
28. Chapter 20. Hair and body fashion identity narratives in The Return of the Slaves exhibition 368
29. Chapter 21. Filling the blanks in history 379
30. Chapter 22. A people made of mud 392
31. Volume 2. Biographical descriptions 409
32. Name index 415