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Routes of Remembrance
Bayo Holsey
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Description for Routes of Remembrance
Paperback. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? This book tackles this question by analyzing the slave trade's absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian family and community histories, its troubled presentation in the country's classrooms and nationalist narratives, and its elaboration by the transnational tourism industry. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; HBTB; HBTS; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic? "Routes of Remembrance" tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade's absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian ... Read more
Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic? "Routes of Remembrance" tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade's absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226349763
SKU
V9780226349763
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99-50
About Bayo Holsey
Bayo Holsey is assistant professor of African and African American studies and cultural anthropology at Duke University.
Reviews for Routes of Remembrance
"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this fascinating book. Indeed, it is rare to find such a sensitive account of how people deal with painful memories of the past and the complex social forces that dictate the shape and form that those memories of the past take." - Jennifer Cole, author of Forget Colonialism?"