Competing Memories of Enslavement, Emancipation and Indentureship
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Edited by:
Sinah Theres Kloß
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Funded by:
DFG
About this book
Competing Memories focuses on the politics of remembering enslavement, emancipation and indentureship in Caribbean contexts. The contributions explore constructions and representations of plural and divergent memories across academic disciplines. As understandings of ‘history’ and ‘memory’ may vary, the volume addresses the different and strategic ways these concepts are used within and in relation to the Caribbean. It highlights how historical narratives and cultures of memory are implemented, removed, contested and remodeled in monuments, art, historical archives, literature, film and other kinds of representation all over the Caribbean, its diasporas and in former colonizing countries. With its focus on cultural memory studies, it provides new impulses to slavery and dependency studies. It also contributes to a global debate aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics of memory formation in the context of colonial violence and trauma. It invites readers to reflect on the power dynamics involved in the processes of remembering, forgetting, memorizing, recollecting and commemorating.
Author / Editor information
Sinah Theres Kloß, Univ. of Bonn, Andrea Gremels, Europ. Univ. Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Ulrike Schmieder, Leibniz Univ. Hanover.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Competing Memories: An Introduction to the Politics of Remembering Enslavement, Emancipation, and Indentureship in the Caribbean
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La esclavitud en Cuba: memoria y reparación vs. olvido histórico
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The Abakuá Murals: Visual Coefficients of Mythical Narratives
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Historical Memory and Transcultural Ambivalences of Witchcraft in Maryse Condé’s Moi, Tituba, sorcière … Noire de Salem
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“Mémoire en nasse”: Entangled, Multidirectional, and Creolised Memories of Indenture and Enslavement in Guadeloupe
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Literature, Reparation, and Non-Competitive Memory: Patrick Chamoiseau’s Collaborative Photography Books
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La desobediencia epistémica puesta en escena: la trata transatlántica entre historia, memoria y archivo en Passage du milieu (1999)
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From the Atlantic Slave Trade to Modern-Day Slavery: Politics of Memory and Education in Christiane Taubira’s L’esclavage raconté à ma fille (2002)
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From Source to Resource? Trials of Enslavers and Their Uses and Interpretations Today
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Memory Making: A Tribute to the Life Work of Frank Martinus Arion
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Preserved Memories, Silenced Memories: From the Empress Joséphine to Émilie, the Enslaved Woman, at the Domaine de La Pagerie, Martinique, 1944–2022
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Mémoires et silences sur le passé de l’esclavisation: l’exemple d’anciennes habitations en Martinique et à Cuba
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Remembering Enslavement in French Port Cities in the Twenty-First Century
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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