AUDIO: Chivallon and Howard on Slavery & Memory in Martinique

At the 2013 workshop Caribbean Urban Aesthetics at The Open University, Christine Chivallon (with David Howard) discussed cultural heritage practices in Martinique: From the CUA website: 3.Locating the memory of slavery in Martinique : landscape versus architecture Christine Chivallon, CNRS/LAM (Les Afriques dans le monde), Sciences Po Bordeaux (Universite de Bordeaux IV) Taking as my … Continue reading AUDIO: Chivallon and Howard on Slavery & Memory in Martinique

Chivallon, Rodet and Jong on Slavery and Memory in Africa, Caribbean

Volume 197/2010 of Cahiers d'études africaines is a special issue ("Jeux de mémoire") edited by Marie-Aude Fouéré on memory in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.  It includes three pieces that may be of interest: Articles Chivallon, Christine. “Mémoires de l’esclavage à la Martinique. L’explosion mémorielle et la révélation de mémoires anonymes.” Cahiers d’études africaines 197 … Continue reading Chivallon, Rodet and Jong on Slavery and Memory in Africa, Caribbean

Araujo (ed.) on History, Memory and the Slave Trade

Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Ana Lucia Araujo, ed. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009), ISBN 13: 978-1-4438-0998-6, 301pp. Introduction The Slave Past in the Present Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University Chapter One "According To My Reckoning": Remembering and Observing Slavery and Emancipation Leslie A. Schwalm, University of Iowa … Continue reading Araujo (ed.) on History, Memory and the Slave Trade