"Contested Histories in Public Space "brings multiple perspectives
to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in
museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from
Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the
waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying particular attention
to how race and empire are implicated in the creation and display
of national narratives, the contributing historians,
anthropologists, and other scholars delve into representations of
contested histories at such "sites" as a British Library exhibition
on the East India Company, a Rio de Janeiro shantytown known as
"the cradle of samba," the Ellis Island immigration museum, and
high-school history textbooks in Ecuador.
Several contributors examine how the experiences of indigenous
groups and the imperial past are incorporated into public histories
in British Commonwealth nations: in Te Papa, New Zealand's national
museum; in the First Peoples' Hall at the Canadian Museum of
Civilization; and, more broadly, in late-twentieth-century
Australian culture. Still others focus on the role of governments
in mediating contested racialized histories: for example, the
post-apartheid history of South Africa's Voortrekker Monument,
originally designed as a tribute to the Voortrekkers who colonized
the country's interior. Among several essays describing how
national narratives have been challenged are pieces on a dispute
over how to represent Nepali history and identity, on
representations of Afrocuban religions in contemporary Cuba, and on
the installation in the French Pantheon in Paris of a plaque
honoring Louis Delgres, a leader of Guadeloupean resistance to
French colonialism.
"Contributors." Paul Amar, Paul Ashton, O. Hugo Benavides, Laurent
Dubois, Richard Flores, Durba Ghosh, Albert Grundlingh, Paula
Hamilton, Lisa Maya Knauer, Charlotte Macdonald, Mark Salber
Phillips, Ruth B. Phillips, Deborah Poole, Anne M. Rademacher,
Daniel J. Walkowitz
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