Creating Memorials, Building Identities - The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic

Klappentext This incisive book investigates memorials to slavery throughout the African diaspora! with an emphasis on Europe. It analyzes not only the increasing number of physical monuments but also the practice of remembering--and forgetting--in museums and plantation houses as well as in contemporary cultural forms like the visual arts! literature! music! and film. A series of case studies ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries! from Senegal and Montserrat to Manchester and Paris! explores issues such as the Lancashire cotton famine! black soldiers in World War II! and the 2007 commemoration of abolition in regional museums. Zusammenfassung The Black Atlantic is a concept developed in the 1990s to discuss the arts! culture! social relations and history of African peoples who have been dispersed by the Transatlantic Slave Trade and colonialism. This book looks at physical and other memorials which talk back to the legacy of the Transatlantic slave trade.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Rice
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.12.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9781846314711
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-471-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Liverpool University Press - S; Liverpool University Press - S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries