Breaking Museal Tradition
Guadeloupe's "Mémorial ACTe" and the Scenography of Slavery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6066933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Renée Gosson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 107 |
| Pages | 179-194 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Histoire sociale (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2257 • E-ISSN: 1918-6576 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/his.2020.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W4234564082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article examines the degree to which the scenography of Guadeloupe's new slavery memorial represents an important turning point in the narrativization and museumification of the French Atlantic slave trade and slavery. Neither purely museum, memorial, nor monument, but all three at the same time, the MACTe escapes traditional museal classification. By blurring the lines between history and fiction, connecting past and present, and juxtaposing "authenticating" historic relics and symbolic contemporary artistic creations in a nonhierarchical way, the MACTe enacts a Creole museography, whereby not one single element is placed above another
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Element (criminal law · Literature · Period (music · Scenography · Turning point · Visual arts · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |