In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments
across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and
other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure
of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most
prominent and frequently visited states that benefit from this
tourism, has more than sixty heritage sites housed in former slave
plantations. These sites contain the remains, restorations,
reconstructions, and replicas of antebellum slave cabins and slave
quarters. In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century
Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana is the
first book to tackle the role, treatment, and representation of
slave cabins at plantation museum sites in contemporary heritage
tourism. In this volume, author Stephen Small describes and
analyzes sixteen twenty-first-century antebellum slave cabins
currently located on three plantation museum sites in Natchitoches,
Louisiana: Oakland Plantation, Magnolia Plantation Complex, and
Melrose Plantation. Small traces the historical trajectory of
plantations and slave cabins since the Civil War and explores what
representations of slavery and slave cabins in these sites convey
about the reconfiguration of the past and the rearticulation of
history in the present. Considering such themes as the role of
white ethnic identity in representations of elite whites and the
extent and significance of Black voices and Black visions of
representations of these plantations, Small asks what these sites
reveal about social forgetting and social remembering throughout
Louisiana and the South. He further explores the ways that gender
structures the social organization of current sites and the role
and influence of the state in the social organization and
representations that prevail today.
General
| Imprint: |
University Press Of Mississippi
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| Authors: |
Stephen Small
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
277 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4968-4556-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4968-4556-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781496845566 |
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