The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra LeoneUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010 M07 1 - 216 pages From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions--in America and Sierra Leone--engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt. Iyunolu Folayan Osagie is a native of Sierra Leone, from where the Amistad's cargo of slaves originated. She digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials. At the same time, she shows how the incident has contributed to the construction of national and cultural identity both in Africa and the African diasporo in America--though in intriguingly different ways. This pioneering work of comparative African and American cultural criticism shows how creative arts have both confirmed and fostered the significance of the Amistad revolt in contemporary racial discourse and in the collective memories of both countries. |
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Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone Iyunolu Folayan Osagie ... collective " re - memory " of resistance in slavery . The Amistad story revolves around events that began in 1839 just off the ...
Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone Iyunolu Folayan Osagie. In The Amistad Revolt , I take up the story of the Amistad by focusing on how its reappearance as a collective act of memory is ...
... memory , and identity . This chapter also reviews the iconographic influences of the Amistad Memorial , designed by ... collective memory by examining the intersections between the Amistad incident and current social and politi- cal ...
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