1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159432403321

Titolo

At the limits of memory : legacies of slavery in the Francophone world / / edited by Nicola Frith and Kate Hodgson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, [England] : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78138-224-7

1-78138-758-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Francophone Postcolonial Studies

Disciplina

306.3/62/0917541

Soggetti

Slavery - History

Slavery - Africa - History

Slavery - Caribbean Area - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Slavery and its legacies : remembering labour exploitation in the Francophone world / Nicola Frith and Kate Hodgson -- The limits of memorialization : commemoration, musealization and patrimony. Representing the slave past : the limits of museographical and patrimonial discourses / Christine Chivallon ; Telling stories of slavery : cultural re-appropriations of slave memory in the French Caribbean today / Catherine Reinhardt ; The art of reconciliation : the memorial to the abolition of slavery in Nantes / Nicola Frith ; Shaping representations of the past in a former slave-trade port : Slavery Remembrance Day (10 May) in Nantes / Renaud Hourcade ; Haiti and the memorial discourses of slavery after 1804 / Kate Hodgson -- Beyond the abolitionist moment : memories and counter-memories of labour exploitation. Cette île n'est pas une île : locating Gorée / Charles Forsdick ; Multiple memories : slavery and indenture in Mauritian literature in French / Srilata Ravi ; Speaking of slavery : representations of domestic slavery in the oral epics of Francophone west Africa / Sotonye Omuku ; From forgetting to remembrance : slavery and forced labour in Tunisia / Inès Mrad Dali ; Imaging the present : an



iconography of slavery in contemporary African art / Claire Griffiths ; Cartographies of memory, politics of emancipation / Françoise Vergès.

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume examines 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 memorialised histories of exploitation, such as indentured and forced labour.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910698934103321

Autore

Curtin Stephen E

Titolo

Potentiometric surface of the Magothy Aquifer in Southern Maryland, September 2007 [[electronic resource] /] / Stephen E. Curtin, David C. Andreasen, and Andrew W. Staley ; prepared in cooperation with the Maryland Geological Survey (MGS) and the Power Plant Assessment Program, Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, VA : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey

[Annapolis, MD] : , : Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources, , [2009]

Descrizione fisica

1 map : digital, PDF file

Collana

Open-file report ; ; 2009-1082

Altri autori (Persone)

AndreasenDavid C

StaleyAndrew W

Soggetti

Aquifers - Maryland, Southern

Groundwater - Maryland, Southern

Water table - Maryland, Southern

Maps.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale cartografico a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Relief shown by contours and spot heights.

Title from title screen (viewed on July 14, 2009).