On the Registers of Caribbean Memory of Slavery1
Translated by Karen E. Fields and Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2164050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Chivallon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 870-891 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502380701865099 |
| OpenAlex | W1539702605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
From discourses elicited by the presence of a slave cemetery in Guadeloupe, the author distinguishes various registers of memory that offer a framework for understanding Caribbean identities. The absence of a meta-discourse is not seen as a vacuum or as a lack which would indicate the weakness of the collective ethos. Rather, it is interpreted through the multiplicity of narratives which replaces the Grand Narrative. This interpretation leads to a more empirically-informed constructivism trying to approach 'mutiplicity' on the basis of an account of what could be a multiple textual matrix. In time, this capacity to create several narratives is analyzed in relationship to a particular experience of power relations that has produced an alert critical consciousness which refuses to grant a meta-narrative any centrality and tends to create a multiply-segmented collectivity
Aesthetics · Centrality · Collective memory · Consciousness · Epistemology · Ethos · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Philosophy
Global dimensions of the African diaspora
The black Atlantic
Espace et identité à la Martinique
Silencing the Past
The birth of African-American culture
Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews
Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
Images of Creole Diversity and Spatiality
The miracle of creolization
Religion as Space for the Expression of Caribbean Identity in the United Kingdom
Bristol and the eruption of memory
Beyond Gilroy's Black Atlantic
La construction d'une mémoire historique à la Martinique
Au-delà de L'« identité
Unfinished Migrations
Diasporas
Invention, Memory, and Place
The 'diaspora' diaspora
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |