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



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Autore: Osagie Iyunolu Folayan <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Amistad revolt : memory, slavery, and the politics of identity in the United States and Sierra Leone / / Iyunolu Folayan Osagie Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-72602-1
9786612726026
0-8203-2725-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817487103321
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