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At the Limits of Memory: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World

At the Limits of Memory: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World

Frith, Nicola
Hodgson, Kate

Paperback

Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Book 6

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1800349009
ISBN13: 9781800349001
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Recent years have seen a growing body of literature dedicated to memories of slavery in the Anglophone world, yet little has been done to approach this subject from Francophone perspectives. This collection responds to the urgent need to contribute to current research on slavery and memory studies by focusing specifically on the Francophone world. Featuring the scholarship of leading academics in France, Britain, the United States and Canada, the collection reflects upon contemporary commemorative practices that relate to the history of slavery and the slave trade, and questions how they function in relationship to other, less memorialized histories of exploitation, such as indentured and forced labour. The volume is set against the context of France's growing body of memory legislation, as well as its close cultural and political connections to its former empire, all of which make it an influential player in how slavery continues to be memorialized and conceptualized in the

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