TY  - BOOK
AU  - Braxton,Joanne M.
AU  - Diedrich,Maria
TI  - Monuments of the Black Atlantic: slavery and memory 
T2  - FORECAAST
SN  - 3825872300
AV  - E442 .M66 2004
U1  - 973.0496073 
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Münster
PB  - LIT
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Slavery in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Monuments of the black Atlantic : introductory remarks; Joanne Braxton and Maria I. Diedrich --; Bahia and the academic tourist; Robert Hinton --; "When we with magic rites the white man's doom prepare" : representations of black resistance in British abolitionist writing during the era of revolution; Kirsten Raupach --; "Mask in motion" : dialect spaces and class representation in Frederick Douglass' Atlantic rhetoric; Fionnghuala Sweeney --; "From the nature of things" : the influence of racial, class and gender proscriptions on the collective memory of Harriet Tubman; Kate Clifford Larson --; John S. Jacobs' "A true tale of slavery" and Harriet Jacobs' The deeper wrong : a brother's story; Jean Fagan Yellin --; When Bridget or Dinah takes to writing books instead : reaction to Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes; Jennifer Fleischner --; Melville's Black Jack : Billy Budd and the politics of race in 19th-century maritime life; Klaus Benesch --; African Muslims in bondage : realities, memories, and legacies; Sylviane A. Diouf --; History, memory, and politics written in stone : early African American grave inscriptions; Angelika Krueger-Kahloula --; Remembering the past, inventing the future : black family and community in nineteenth-century New York city; Carla L. Peterson --; Self-evident truths : love, complicity, and critique in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings and The president's daughter; Cherise A. Pollard --; Embodied memories - sharable stories? : the legacies of slavery as a problem of representation in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata; Stefanie Sievers --; African Americana in Dakar's liminal spaces; David G. Nicholls
N2  - "The essays collected here illustrate that the repressed memory of crossing lives not only in the academy, in oral traditions, and in the stone walls of slave fortresses but in the liturgy as well as the spiritual and religious practices throughout the African Diaspora. Descendants of African slaves living in the wide Diaspora are bearers of an "unforgetful strength" that endures and endures, manifesting itself in every aspect of culture. Black writers, artists and musicians in the New World have tested the limits of cultural memory, finding in it the inspiration to "speak the unspeakable.""--BOOK JACKET
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