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Abstract / Description of output
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.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Liverpool |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Number of pages | 256 |
Volume | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781781387580 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781781381595 |
Publication status | Published - 21 Mar 2015 |
Publication series
Name | Francophone Postcolonial Studies |
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Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Volume | 6 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Francophone postcolonialism
- slavery
- indentured labour
- Indian Ocean
- Caribbean
- Nantes
- Bordeaux
- memory
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- 1 Finished
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Mapping Memories of Slavery: Commemoration, Community and Identity inContemporary France
1/02/15 → 31/10/15
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Is memory enough? Remembering the racial legacies of slavery in France today
Nicola Frith & Kate Hodgson
24/06/15
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Activities
- 1 Participation in conference
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At the Limits of Slavery: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World
Nicola Frith (Invited speaker)
16 Jun 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Profiles
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Nicki Frith
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures - Chancellors Fellow- Senior Lecturer
Person: Academic: Research Active