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Living History - Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Living History - Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This book focusses on the several forms of reconstructing the slave
past in the present. The recent emergence of the memory of slavery
allows those who are or who claim to be descendents of slaves to
legitimize their demand for recognition and for reparations for
past wrongs. Some reparation claims encompass financial
compensation, but very often they express the need for
memorialization through public commemoration, museums, and
monuments. In some contexts, presentification of the slave past has
helped governments and the descendants of former masters and slave
merchants to formulate public apologies. For some, expressing
repentance is not only a means to erase guilt but also a way to
gain political prestige. The authors analyse different aspects of
the recent phenomenon of memorializing slavery, especially the
practices employed to stage the slave past in both public and
private spaces. The essays present memory and oblivion as part of
the same process; they discuss reconstructions of the past in the
present at different public and private levels through
historiography, photography, exhibitions, monuments, memorials,
collective and individual discourses, cyberspace, religion and
performance. By offering a comparative perspective on the United
States and West Africa, as well as on Western Europe, South
America, and the Caribbean, the chapters offer new possibilities to
explore the resurgence of the memory of slavery as a transnational
movement in our contemporary world.
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