The Amistad revolt : memory, slavery, and the politics of identity in the United States and Sierra Leone / / Iyunolu Folayan Osagie
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 326/.0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Amistad revolt |
| ISBN: | 1-282-72602-1 |
| 9786612726026 | |
| 0-8203-2725-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817487103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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