West Indian Memories of Slavery

The Americas
By Christine Chivallon
English

Discourses induced by the presence of a slave cemetery in Guadeloupe show the diversity of memory levels that enable to understand the Caribbean world. The absence of a community metadiscourse on this cemetery reflects a splitting of the collective memory.

Keywords

  • Caribbean
  • Guadeloupe
  • memory
  • slavery
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