From slave to Maroon
The present-centredness of Mauritian slave heritage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12737707 |
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| Authors | Anne Eichmann (0000-0001-5563-210X, Multichannel (China), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-335 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Atlantic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-8810 • E-ISSN: 1740-4649 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14788810.2012.688627 |
| OpenAlex | W2094178698 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Three heritage sites – a monument in Port Louis, the National History Museum in Mahebourg and Le Morne Mountain, a World Heritage site associated with slavery – and their textual and visual narratives serve as exemplary cases of shifting dominant paradigms of representing slavery in the course of the past two decades. Focusing on the national dimension, the article also attempts to contextualize these readings by detecting some of the actors constructing specific images of slavery, as well as their motives and positions of speaking
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Maroon · Narrative · National heritage · National monument · Sociology · Visual arts · World heritage · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy
The texture of memory
Uses of Heritage
The Museum, a Temple or the Forum 1
Black Skin, White Masks
Blind memory
Post-Colonial Studies
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Post-Colonial Studies
On Collective Memory
Representations of black people in Brazilian museums
Creating the Creole Island slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius
Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem—and Mine
Dissonant heritage
Museum Frictions
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man
The Horrible Gift of Freedom
Creating memorials, building identities
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority Rights
Figures identitaires créoles et patrimoine à l’île Maurice
The Creole Malaise in Mauritius
Intangible Heritage in Conservation Management Planning
Breaking the Wall of Silence
Reinventing the Museum
The Past in the Present
| Highly cited | No |
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