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

Intro -- Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Slavery and Its Legacies: Remembering Labour Exploitation in the Francophone World -- The Limits of Memorialization: Commemoration, Musealization and Patrimony -- Representing the Slave Past: The Limits of Museographical and Patrimonial Discourses -- Telling Stories of Slavery: Cultural Re-appropriations of Slave Memory in the French Caribbean Today -- The Art of Reconciliation: The Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes -- Shaping Representations of the Past in a Former Slave-Trade Port: Slavery Remembrance Day (10 May) in Nantes -- Haiti and the Memorial Discourses of Slavery after 1804 -- Beyond the Abolitionist Moment: Memories and Counter Memories of Labour Exploitation -- Cette île n'est pas une île: Locating Gorée -- Multiple Memories: Slavery and Indenture in Mauritian Literature in French -- Speaking of Slavery: Representations of Domestic Slavery in the Oral Epics of Francophone West Africa -- From Forgetting to Remembrance: Slavery and Forced Labour in Tunisia -- Imaging the Present: An Iconography of Slavery in Contemporary African Art -- Cartographies of Memory, Politics of Emancipation -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Internationally renowned academics look at memories of slavery in the Francophone world, reflecting upon contemporary commemorative practices that relate to the history of slavery and the slave trade, and questioning how they function in relationship to other, less memorialized histories of exploitation, such as indentured and forced labour.

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