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Transnational Memory
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Transnational Memory

by Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 8m
English
De Gruyter
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Paulla A. Ebron

Slavery and Transnational Memory: The Making of New Publics

At the turn-of-the-century, Sea Island Gullahs, descendants of African Captives, remained isolated from the mainland of South Carolina and Georgia. As a result of their isolation, the Gullah created and maintained a distinctive, imaginative, and original African American culture. Gullah communities recalled, remembered, and recollected much of what their ancestors brought with them from Africa [...]. (Daughters of the Dust, 1991)

The film Daughters of the Dust opens with sounds and images crafted to evoke a sense of memory and communal recollection.91 Set in 1902, the film shows several generations of the Gullah community grappling with the problem of memory: is the ...

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