At the Limits of Memory: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World
At the Limits of Memory: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World
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Abstract
Recent years have seen a growing body of literature dedicated to memories of slavery in the Anglophone world, yet little has been done to approach this subject from Francophone perspectives. This collection responds to the urgent need to contribute to current research on slavery and memory studies by focusing specifically on the Francophone world. Featuring the scholarship of leading academics in France, Britain, the United States and Canada, the collection reflects upon contemporary commemorative practices that relate to the history of slavery and the slave trade, and questions how they function in relationship to other, less memorialized histories of exploitation, such as indentured and forced labour. The volume is set against the context of France’s growing body of memory legislation, as well as its close cultural and political connections to its former empire, all of which make it an influential player in how slavery continues to be memorialized and conceptualized in the public sphere. Contributors retrace and redraw the narrative map of slavery and its legacies in the Francophone world through a comparative understanding of how these different, but interconnected forms of labour exploitation have been remembered and/or forgotten from European, West African, Indian Ocean and Caribbean perspectives.
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Front Matter
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Slavery and Its Legacies: Remembering Labour Exploitation in the Francophone World
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The Limits of Memorialization: Commemoration, Musealization and Patrimony
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Representing the Slave Past: The Limits of Museographical and Patrimonial Discourses
Christine Chivallon
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Telling Stories of Slavery: Cultural Re-appropriations of Slave Memory in the French Caribbean Today
Catherine Reinhardt
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The Art of Reconciliation: The Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes
Nicola Frith
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Shaping Representations of the Past in a Former Slave-Trade Port: Slavery Remembrance Day (10 May) in Nantes
Renaud Hourcade
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Haiti and the Memorial Discourses of Slavery after 1804
Kate Hodgson
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Representing the Slave Past: The Limits of Museographical and Patrimonial Discourses
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Beyond the Abolitionist Moment: Memories and Counter-Memories of Labour Exploitation
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Cette île n’est pas une île: Locating Gorée
Charles Forsdick
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Multiple Memories: Slavery and Indenture in Mauritian Literature in French
Srilata Ravi
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Speaking of Slavery: Representations of Domestic Slavery in the Oral Epics of Francophone West Africa
Sotonye Omuku
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From Forgetting to Remembrance: Slavery and Forced Labour in Tunisia
Inès Mrad Dali
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Imaging the Present: An Iconography of Slavery in Contemporary African Art
Claire Griffiths
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Cartographies of Memory, Politics of Emancipation
Françoise Vergès
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Cette île n’est pas une île: Locating Gorée
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