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At the Limits of Memory - Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World (Paperback)
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At the Limits of Memory - Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World (Paperback)
Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 6
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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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