Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. Alan Rice. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2010. ix + 244 pp. (Cloth US$ 95.00; 2012, paper US$ 39.95)
Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. Alan Rice. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2010. ix + 244 pp. (Cloth US$ 95.00; 2012, paper US$ 39.95)
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创建纪念碑,建立身份:黑大西洋的记忆政治。
DOI:
10.1163/22134360-12340012
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发表时间:
2013
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0.7
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J. Kardux
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作者:
J. Kardux
With his new book on memorialization and identities, Alan Rice makes an important field of Black Studies in Europe. He begins that have recently been unveiled in Am remembrance of their nations' slave tradin past has received considerable public ack decades, Rice argues that simply buildin dispel a collective amnesia regarding slav mer imperial centers. A self-proclaimed ra proposes a more active and political form o" guerrilla memorialization." The memori 2008 and the modest gravesite of" Sambo," after his arrival in North England around tive and moving than the national slavery dam, with their traditional broken-chain s Despite their obscure or remote locatio resulted in more dynamic memorial site tion dominant historical narratives and act stories these sites tell. The London monument invites viewers granite vertical structures, which represen the platform overlooking them—encoura with a slave auction block, an abolitionist's template the multiple meanings of the mo the same time, the monument's proximi stimulates historical consciousness of the e colonial exploitation and their contribution Sambo's grave outside Lancaster similarly e potentially transformative—engagement w at least since the 1970s, local schoolchildren Lieu de mémoire and left painted stones th port's willfully forgotten history that bro lated spot. His book's dustjacket shows a ph