Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 280 p)
,
ill., map
,
24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780226349756
,
9780226349763
,
0226349756
,
0226349764
Inhalt:
Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic?Routes of Remembrance tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade's absence fr
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and index
,
CONTENTS ; Acknowledgments; Note on Akan Orthography; Introduction; PART I SEQUESTERING THE SLAVE TRADE ; 1 Of Origins: Making Family, Region, Nation; 2 Conundrums of Kinship: Sequestering Slavery, Recalling Kin; 3 Displacing the Past: Imagined Geographies of Enslavement; 4 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity; 5 E-Race-ing History: Schooling and National Identity ; PART II CENTERING THE SLAVE TRADE ; 6 Slavery and the Making of Black Atlantic History; 7 Navigating New Histories; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226349756
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Routes of Remembrance : Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana
Sprache:
Englisch
Bookmarklink
