British Slave Trade and Public Memory

How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions in her study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. Skillfully incorporating a range of material, Wallace discusses and analyzes how museum exhibits, novels, television shows, movies, and a play created and produced in Britain from 1990 to 2000 grappled with the subject of slavery.
Topics discussed include a walking tour in the former slave-trading port of Bristol; novels by Caryl Phillips and Barry Unsworth; a television adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park; and a revival of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In each case, Wallace reveals how these works and performances illuminate and obscure the history of the slave trade and its legacy. While Wallace focuses on Britain, her work also speaks to questions of how the United States and other nations remember inglorious chapters from their past.

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Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace

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Explores various questions in the study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. This book discusses how museum exhibits, novels, television shows, movies, and a play created and produced in Britain grappled with the subject of slavery. It discusses a walking tour in the former slave-trading port of Bristol.

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• Autori: Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth Wallace, Elizabeth Kowalesi Wallace, Elizabeth Kowalesi/ Kowaleski-Wallace Wallace, Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 11.01.2006
• EAN: 9780231137140
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13714-0
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, British Isles, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery, International Trade, Slavery and abolition of slavery, International trade and commerce