Postcolonial slavery :: an overview of colonialism's legacy /

This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and the USA examining different forms and manifestations of postcolonial slavery underlines the significance of the year 2007, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the passage of the British law bannin...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baker, Charlotte, 1976- (HerausgeberIn), Jahn, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung:This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and the USA examining different forms and manifestations of postcolonial slavery underlines the significance of the year 2007, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the passage of the British law banning the slave trade. Slavery and its legacies galvanized a diachronic series of ethnic crossings and transformations that engendered new and complex patterns of crosscultural contact. And the importance of communities of runaway slaves can scarcely be overstated as a symbol of an insistent black resistance and self-affirmation. But in bringing the material realities of slavery to the forefront of the imagination, this volume also highlights the marginalization of British and French colonial practices in institutionalized frameworks of historical knowledge. Actively contesting the related traumas of transplantation, the middle passage, and the fracturing of the collective memory, and drawing actively on a wide range of approaches and perspectives, this collection seeks to reinscribe a material historical consciousness of slavery and its legacies through a strategic interaction between history, subjectivity, and representation. --H. Adlai Murdoch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxi, 181 pages :)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index.
ISBN:9781443814577
1443814571
1282413848
9781282413849
9786612413841
6612413840

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