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Autore |
Osagie Iyunolu Folayan <1960-> |
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Titolo |
The Amistad revolt : memory, slavery, and the politics of identity in the United States and Sierra Leone / / Iyunolu Folayan Osagie |
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Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-72602-1 |
9786612726026 |
0-8203-2725-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-174) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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