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Public Memory of Slavery - Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic (Hardcover, New)
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Public Memory of Slavery - Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic (Hardcover, New)
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In this book, Ana Lucia Araujo argues that despite the rupture
provoked by the Atlantic slave trade, the Atlantic Ocean was never
a physical barrier that prevented the exchanges between the two
sides; it was instead a corridor that allowed the production of
continuous relations. Araujo shows that the memorialization of
slavery in Brazil and Benin was not only the result of survivals
from the period of the Atlantic slave trade but also the outcome of
a transnational movement that was accompanied by the continuous
intervention of institutions and individuals who promoted the
relations between Brazil and Benin. Araujo insists that the
circulation of images was, and still is, crucial to the development
of reciprocal cultural, religious, and economic exchanges and to
defining what is African in Brazil and what is Brazilian in Africa.
In this context, the South Atlantic is conceived as a large zone in
which the populations of African descent undertake exchanges and
modulate identities, a zone where the European and the Amerindian
identities were also appropriated in order to build its own nature.
This book shows that the public memory of slavery and the Atlantic
slave trade in the South Atlantic is plural; it is conveyed not
only by the descendants of the victims but also by the descendants
of perpetrators. Although the slave past is a critical issue in
societies that largely relied on slave labor and where the heritage
of slavery is still present, the memories of this past remain very
often restricted to the private space. This book shows how in
Brazil and Benin social actors appropriated the slave past to build
new identities, fight against social injustice, and in some cases
obtain political prestige. The book illuminates how the public
memory of slavery in Brazil and Benin contributes to the rise of
the South Atlantic as an autonomous zone of claim for recognition
for those peoples and cultures that were cruelly broken, dispersed,
and depreciated by the Atlantic slave trade. Public Memory of
Slavery is an important book for collections in slavery studies,
memory studies, Brazilian and Latin American studies, ethnic
studies, cultural anthropology, African studies and African
Diaspora. Araujo sheds light on the paradoxical understandings of
the slave trade in southern Benin and the unintended results of
some international efforts to recognise the history of slavery and
the slave trade. ...] makes a useful addition to the literature
because the reader is only reminded how much Africans and descen-
dants of Africans have shaped this vast Atlantic world territory
through divergent processes of exchange and recreation, occurring
both within and beyond the gaze of Western dis- course.
(Itinerario, November 2011) The book is broad ranging and provides
an introduction to numerous subjects (...) Recommended. (Choice,
June 2011)
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