Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Claims to Memory : Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean / Catherine Reinhardt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ; 10Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781845454128
  • 9781782382065
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.903
LOC classification:
  • F2151
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781782382065

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 online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)