Publications

Authors:

Sassi, Carla

Title:

Issues of Memory, Issues of Identity: Interrogating Scotland’s Mnemonic Fictions of the Caribbean

Year:

2010

Type of item:

Contributo in atti di convegno

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in Atti di convegno

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Congresso:

Twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation

Place:

University of Aberdeen

Period:

30th July – 2nd August 2008

Publisher:

Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN:

9781443824842

Page numbers:

97-117

Keyword:

Caribbean literature; Scottish literature; memory and literature

Short description of contents:

An investigation of the intersections of history and memory in the representation of Caribbean-Scottish relations. The article, by drawing on theories gauged by postcolonial and memory studies, explores the intersections between constructions of Scottishness in the imperial age and the 'un/willing' amnesia of Scotland's involvement in the exploitation of slaves and slavery. It also focuses on the central importance of appropriate forms of memorialisation of slavery in present-day Scotland,considering the limitations of representation of traumatic events, and those posed by the discourse of the nation.

Web page:

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/-What-Countrey-s-This---And-Whither-Are-We-Gone----Papers-presented-at-the-Twelfth-International-Con1-4438-2484-4.htm

Product ID:

58644

Handle IRIS:

11562/347377

Deposited On:

May 24, 2012

Last Modified:

October 28, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Sassi, Carla, Issues of Memory, Issues of Identity: Interrogating Scotland’s Mnemonic Fictions of the Caribbean  in 'What Countrey’s This? And Whither Are We Gone?': Papers presented at the Twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation (Aberdeen University, 30th July – 2nd August 2008) , Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Proceedings of "Twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation" , University of Aberdeen , 30th July – 2nd August 2008 , 2010 , pp. 97-117

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