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• Dependency and Slavery Studies [More in this series]
• Dependency and Slavery Studies ; v.27 [More in this series]

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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.

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Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Competing Memories: An Introduction to the Politics of Remembering Enslavement, Emancipation, and Indentureship in the Caribbean
• Competing, Entangled, and Multidirectional Memories: An Outline of this Volume
• Bibliography
• La esclavitud en Cuba: memoria y reparación vs. olvido histórico
• 1 Difuminaciones de la memoria de la esclavitud en Cuba
• 2 Historia y memoria del pasado esclavista cubano
• 3 La revolución cubana y sus nuevas lecturas de la historia nacional
• 4 Esclavitud y afrodescendencia: una memoria fragmentada
• Bibliografía
• Referencias bibliográficas
• Referencias videográficas
• The Abakuá Murals: Visual Coefficients of Mythical Narratives
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Cuban Abakuá Society
• 3 The Founding Narrative
• 4 Ritual Practices and Dynamics
• 5 Sights of the Field
• 6 Locating Visual Presence
• 7 The Murals
• 8 The Elements of the Mural
• 9 'Erenyó' Ideograms: A Visual Graphic Confirmation
• 10 Conclusion
• Historical Memory and Transcultural Ambivalences of Witchcraft in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba, sorcière … Noire de Salem
• 1 Entangled Histories: Remembering Slavery "Without-A-Fixed-Abode"
• 2 Tituba: Ambivalent Heroine of Anticolonial Resistance
• 3 Transcultural Memory and Magic
• 4 Female Heroines Across Cultures and the Return to the Native Land
• 5 Conclusion
• "Mémoire en nasse": Entangled, Multidirectional, and Creolised Memories of Indenture and Enslavement in Guadeloupe
• 2 Competing Memory and the Marginalisation of the Indian Presence
• 3 Toward an Inclusive Memorial Politics
• 4 Entanglement and Creolisation of Memories
• Literature, Reparation, and Non-Competitive Memory: Patrick Chamoiseau's Collaborative Photography Books
• 1 Introduction.
• 2 Coloniality and the Reparatory Potential of Literature
• 3 History and Memory in Chamoiseau's Photo-Texts on the Guianese Penal Colony
• 4 Memory and Social Reality in Elmire des sept bonheurs
• 5 Melancholy, Tradition, and Non-Competitive Memory
• 6 Conclusion
• La desobediencia epistémica puesta en escena: la trata transatlántica entre historia, memoria y archivo en Passage du milieu (1999)
• 1 Trata y esclavitud en clave de (docu)ficción: contra el silencio de la historia
• 2 Memoria y/como reescritura de la historia a partir del archivo (precario): pensar el archivo desde la experiencia
• 3 Passage du milieu: las operaciones de la memoria y la reescritura de la historia
• 4 La experiencia (audiovisual) de la travesía y del barco
• 4.1 La trama de la violencia y la desposesión
• 4.2 Tiempos y espacios: el barco, el mar y la travesía
• 4.3 Voces (ausentes)
• 4.4 Rostros, cuerpos y miradas
• 4.5 La trama de la resistencia
• 5 A modo de conclusión: una memoria incómoda
• 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)
• 1 The Taubira Law and the Politics of Memory in France
• 2 L'esclavage raconté à ma fille (2002)
• 3 Dialogue and Education
• 4 Conclusions
• From Source to Resource? Trials of Enslavers and Their Uses and Interpretations Today
• 1 'Back' to the Sources: Voices of the Enslaved in Trials of Enslavers
• 2 Art from the Archive(s)
• 2.1 The Trial of Louis-Joseph Vallentin (1842): Present-Day Interpretations
• 2.1.1 A Trial for the Movies
• 2.1.2 Initiating a Process of Mourning
• 2.2 The Trial of Henry Morette (1846): Critical Fabulation
• 3 Conclusion: Trials of Enslavers as a Resource
• Bibliography.
• Memory Making: A Tribute to the Life Work of Frank Martinus Arion
• 1 Arion's Multilingual Origins
• 2 Creole-Speaking Characters
• 3 The Importance of Papiamentu in Education
• 4 Linguistic Research and the Transatlantic Connection
• Preserved Memories, Silenced Memories: From the Empress Joséphine to Émilie, the Enslaved Woman, at the Domaine de La Pagerie, Martinique, 1944-2022
• 1 The Domaine de La Pagerie Under the Management of Robert Rose-Rosette (1944-1984) and of the Conseil Général (1884-2015)
• 1.1 Acquiring the Domaine de La Pagerie: A Project to Contribute to the Fame of Martinique
• 1.2 Museography and the Collections
• 1.3 Visitors and Public Reactions
• 1.4 An Imbalance of Memories
• 1.5 The Invisibility of Slavery
• 2 Since 2015: Rethinking Museography and Mediation at the Domaine de La Pagerie
• 2.1 New Dynamics
• 2.2 New Museography
• 2.3 The New Mediation Concept
• Archive Materials
• Secondary Sources
• Mémoires et silences sur le passé de l'esclavisation: l'exemple d'anciennes habitations en Martinique et à Cuba
• 2 La commémoration sur les sites dirigés par des descendant.es des esclavisé.es (Black-Run and Black-Organized SitesEichstedt et Small, Representations of Slavery: 22, 233-56.)
• 3 Les habitations aux mains des héritier.es des esclavagistes et les musées de plantation publics
• 3.1 « Effacement / anéantissement de l'esclavage et valorisation de l'univers de la plantocratie »Les intitulés et ses répétitions dans ce sous-chapitre suivent les catégories de Eichstedt et Small traduites par Chivallon, voir citation au deuxième page de ce chapitre, Chivallon, « Rendre visible »: 19.
• 3.2 « La Trivialisation de l'esclavage ».
• 3.3 « Lieux de l'entre-deux »: entre « ségrégation des savoirs » et « l'incorporation partielle » ou « incorporation pleine » de l'esclavage, des esclavisé.es et leur résistanceEichstedt et Small, Representations of Slavery: 170, 203. Small, « Still Back of the Big House »: 416. Chivallon, « Rendre visible »: 19.
• 4 Tentative d'explication
• Bibliographie
• Archives
• Entretiens et conversations
• Sources littéraires
• Ressources en ligne
• Remembering Enslavement in French Port Cities in the Twenty-First Century
• 1 Under-Representation of the Enslaved in French Commemorative Sites and Slave Trading Ports
• 2 Trends in Recent Studies
• 3 Les Ports Négriers: Sites of Slavery Memory in La Rochelle, Nantes, and Bordeaux
• 4 Voices of the Enslaved
• 5 Images of the Enslaved
• 6 Conclusion: Departures from the Abolitionist Vision of Transatlantic Slavery
• Primary Sources
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.

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3-11-222493-0

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