African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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202 p, "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 Enligtenment 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." --Jacket.
Miles,Tiya (Author) and Holland,Sharon Patricia (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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364 p, "These essays explore the complex cultures, identities, and politics that arise in the space where black and native experiences converge." (Google)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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403 p, A historical dictionary compiling information on The Haitian Revolution, spanning from 1789-1804. With entries on events, acts, places and figures of importance.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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177 p, "Una de las paradojas reclacitrantes del Código Negro francés (1685) es que hasta hoy no ha sido traducido íntegramente a la lengua castellana.En tiempos de depreciación y agravio de los derechos humanos elementales (orientados ahora hacia las minorías étnicas y los migrantes),parece oportuno y hasta necesario dar a conocer algunos comentariosy apreciaciones críticas sobre este "¡sobervio ejemplar de perversidad!",donde los esclavos negros son considerados -con increíble cinismo- poco menos que bestias." (libreria.mora.edu.mx);
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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2 vols (962 p)., Accessible to students and general readers, this encyclopedia overviews the lives and works of Caribbean authors. Because Caribbean literature is so much a reflection of regional concerns, the encyclopedia gives special attention to the political, cultural, and historical contexts in which Caribbean authors have lived and worked.
