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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817487103321

Autore

Osagie Iyunolu Folayan <1960->

Titolo

The Amistad revolt : memory, slavery, and the politics of identity in the United States and Sierra Leone / / Iyunolu Folayan Osagie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2000

ISBN

1-282-72602-1

9786612726026

0-8203-2725-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

326/.0973

Soggetti

Slave insurrections - United States

African Americans - Race identity

Group identity - Political aspects - United States

Memory - Social aspects - United States

Memory - Social aspects - Sierra Leone

Freedmen - Sierra Leone - History - 19th century

Group identity - Political aspects - Sierra Leone

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 (p. [161]-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. REMEMBERING THE PAST -- Chapter One. The Amistad Story in the American Context -- Chapter Two. Slave Revolts and the Production of Identity -- Chapter Three. The Amistad Returnees and the Mende Mission -- PART TWO. REINVENTING THE PRESENT -- Chapter Four. Sculpting History: African American Burdens of Memory -- Chapter Five. National Identity: The Dramatic Return of Memory in Sierra Leone -- Chapter Six. Hollywood Images, African Memories: Spielberg's Amistad and Sierra Leone Culture and Politics -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. Osagie, a native of Sierra Leone,



digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials.