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25 mars 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.11350
- isbn: 9782842696481
- eisbn: 9782367813967
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Alan Rice, « British Selective Amnesia and the Political Imperative to Conserve Black Atlantic Memory », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.11350
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Slave Trade gravesites/memorials in Europe will be briefly compared as differing lieux de memoire and contrastively lieux d’oubli (Pierre Nora). The presentation will introduce work from Rice’s Radical... Narratives of the Black Atlantic (Continuum 2003) and use copious illustrations to interrogate over - glib generalizations about the value or otherwise of visiting such sites of communal and personal remembrance. An exemplar site will be the local memorial Sambo’s Grave at Sunderland Point, Lancashire which has had touristic valencies since the 1790s and memorial implications since its inauguration in c.1736. The site is an ever-changing lieu de mémoire whose changing shape reflects the community’s desire to understand its own role in the slave trade. Of particular interest are the stones with messages left by children at the site. The political implications of the memorialisation that already goes on at the site will be discussed with reference to wider issues of remembrance, racism, sentimentality and perceptions of white guilt.