TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reinhardt,Catherine
TI  - Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean 
T2  - Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections
SN  - 9781845454128
AV  - F2151 
U1  - 972.903 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Black people
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - West Indies, French
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Maroons
KW  - Memory
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Myth
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Slaves
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Colonial History, Cultural Studies (General), Memory Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Memories of Slavery --; 1. Realms of the Enlightenment --; 2. Realms of the Maroon --; 3. Realms of Freedom --; 4. Realms of Assimilation --; 5. Realms of Memory --; Conclusion: Beyond Slavery --; Postscript --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their collective memory of slavery and emancipation from France's portrayal of these historical phenomena? How are Martinicans and Guadeloupeans today transforming the silences of the past into historical and cultural manifestations rooted in the Caribbean? This book answers these questions by relating the 1998 controversy surrounding the 150th anniversary of France's abolition of slavery to the period of the slave regime spanning the late Enlightenment and the French Revolution. By comparing a diversity of documents—including letters by slaves, free people of color, and planters, as well as writings by the philosophes, royal decrees, and court cases—the author untangles the complex forces of the slave regime that have shaped collective memory. The current nationalization of the memory of slavery in France has turned these once peripheral claims into passionate political and cultural debates
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382065?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782382065
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782382065/original
ER  -