Part One.Counter-Memories and memories of resistance

Chapter 2.“Some slave is rotting in this manorial lake”: Fictions of memory in Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant 24

Marco Doudin

Chapter 3.Transforming the colonial scene of writing: Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat 40

Mina Karavanta

Chapter 4.Commemorating slavery during apartheid: The hidden transcripts of the Cape Klopse carnival 54

Anne Marieke van der Wal

Chapter 5.Gothic tropes and displacements of slave rebellion in Matthew G. Lewis’s
Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 70

Stephanie M. Volder

Chapter 6.The Memorial ACTe in Guadeloupe: Whitening the dark memory of slavery? 88

Stephanie Mulot

Part Two.The body as material archive

Chapter 7.Bio-graphies in the broad sense: Narrating the lives and genomes of the enslaved 112

Sarah Abel

Gísli Pálsson

Chapter 8.Looking at black bodies in pain 130

Anne Scacchi

Chapter 9.Performing the neurotic: Memory and black subjectivity in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts 148

Noni Carter

Part Three.Fictionality as history writing

Chapter 10.Reimagining slavery from a twenty-first-century perspective: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) 168

Isabel Kalous

Chapter 11.Contemporary Scandinavian colonial-historical fiction: Slavery and exceptional whiteness 188

Lill-Ann Körber

Chapter 12.The confluence of fiction, historical memory and oral history: The crises of identity and traumatic memories in Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 214

Emmanuel Saboro

Ruth Abeduwah Quansah

Chapter 13.Cinematic slavery: A genealogy of film from 1903 to 2020 229

Steven W. Thomas

Part Four.The cultural bricolage of history

Interdisciplinary perspectives

Chapter 14.Carrying memory and making meaning: Black identity and the slave past 254

Wendy Wilson-Fall

Chapter 15.Contradicting histories, memories, fictions: A bricolage of slavery in the early-modern French Caribbean 270

Domna C. Stanton

Chapter 16.The cultural memory of Roma slavery in Europe: Aferim! (2015) 295

Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh

Part Five.Authorship

Authenticity and ambiguity of voice

Chapter 17.“From Mary’s own lips”: Orality, transcription, and editing in The History of Mary Prince 314

Raquel Kennon

Chapter 18.Self-expression by black Antillean women: Disempowering self-censorship and remembering history 330

Roseline Armange

Chapter 19.Creating a new abolitionist literature for children: Lydia Maria Child’s The Juvenile Miscellany (1826–1834) between domesticity and racial hierarchies 349

Serena Mocci

Part Six.Creative approaches to the memorialization of slavery

Chapter 20.Hair and body fashion identity narratives in The Return of the Slaves
exhibition 368

Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel

Chapter 21.Filling the blanks in history 379

Fabienne Kanor

Chapter 22.A people made of mud: An archaeological tale of enslavement at beef jerky plantations, Southern Brazil 392

Lino J. Zabala

Elis Meza

Volume 2.Biographical descriptions 409

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