Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery

Informationen zum Autor Celeste-Marie Bernier is a Lecturer in the School of American and Canadian Studies! University of Nottingham! and the author of African American Visual Arts! University of North Carolina Press and Edinburgh University Press! 2008. She is currently writing a monograph for Routledgeon Slave Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination.Judie Newman is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her most recent book is Fictions of America: Narratives of Global Empire! Routledge! 2007. Zusammenfassung Distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss the issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Public Art, Artefacts and Atlantic Slavery: Introduction Celeste-Marie Bernier and Judie Newman 2. Am I Not a Man and a Brother?: Phrenology and Anti-Slavery Cynthia Hamilton 3. Remembering Slavery in Birmingham: Sculpture, Paintings and Installations Andy Green 4. Speculation and the Imagination: History, Storytelling and the Body in Godfried Donkor’s Financial Times (2007) Celeste-Marie Bernier 5. "Doing Good While Doing Well": The Decision to Manufacture Products that Supported the Abolition of the Slave Trade & Slavery in Great Britain Martha Katz-Hyman 6. Sally Hemings in Visual Culture: A Radical Act of the Imagination? Sharon Monteith 7. Atlantic slavery and traumatic representation in museums: ‘The Great Blacks in Wax’ as a test case Marcus Wood 8. Interspatialism in the Nineteenth-Century South: The Natchez of Henry Norman John Stauffer 9. ‘A Limited Sort of Property’: History, Memory, and the Slave Ship, Zong Anita Rupprecht 10. Other Peoples’ History: Slavery, Refuge and Irish Citizenship in Dónal O Kelly’s The Cambria Fionnghuala Sweeney 11. Facing slavery’s past: the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade Anthony Tibbles ...

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• Authors: Celeste-Marie (University of Edinburgh Bernier, Celeste-Marie (University of Nottingham Bernier, Celeste-Marie Newman Bernier, BERNIER CELESTE MARIE NEWMAN JUD
• Assisted by: Celeste-Marie Bernier (Editor), Celeste-Marie (University of Nottingham Bernier (Editor), Bernier Celeste-Marie (Editor), Judie Newman (Editor), Judie (University of Nottingham Newman (Editor), Newman Judie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2009
• EAN: 9780415483155
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48315-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Ethnic Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Theory of art, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / Criticism & Theory, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General