The House That Story Built: The Place of Slavery in Plantation Museum Narratives

Carter, Perry; Butler, David; Alderman, Derek H.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2014.921016

Cited by 43 publications

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“…This is classic use of what Hoskins has identified as ‘narrative economies,’ where narratives are purposefully created by an author to combine with a viewer's own personal narratives in order to achieve a specific outcome . Carter et al observe narrative economies as primarily focused with the performative power of the story itself versus locating the story within arbitrary categories such as fact or fiction . It does not matter if Langjökull is factually in recession (it is Ref ); what matters to Von‐Sometime is that viewers may gaze upon the glacier and, regardless of the glacier's actual health, ‘see’ glacier ruins and therein register the feelings of loss.…”

Section: Cinematicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Glaciers and climate change: narratives of ruined futures

Jackson

2015

WIREs Climate Change

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Section: Cinematicmentioning

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Glaciers and climate change: narratives of ruined futures

Jackson

2015

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Santa Eufrásia's operations were criticized by Afro-Brazilian communities and others, and the estate had to reconfigure its tours (Último Segundo 2017). In the southern United States, some plantation tourism also glamorizes the big house and the lifestyle that went with it while avoiding any reference to the tremendous asymmetries and racialized violence beneath that grandeur-a fact that literature on museums has critically approached and elaborated upon (Bruner 1993;Carter et al 2014;Eichstedt and Small 2002;Galles and Perry 2014;Modlin 2008;Skipper and Davidson 2018).…”

Section: Plantation Memories Plantation Tourism Plantation Museumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage

Bastos

2020

Museum Worlds

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Plantation museums and memorials play different roles in coming to terms with a past of racialized violence. In this article, I briefly review the academic literature on plantations, refer to the plantation–race nexus, address the critical and acritical uses of plantation memories, discuss modes of musealizing plantations and memorializing labor, and present a community-based museum structure: Hawaii’s Plantation Village. This museum project is consistent with a multiethnic narrative of Hawai‘i, in that it provides both an overview of the plantation experience and a detailed account of the cultural heritage of each national group recruited for the sugar plantations. By providing a sense of historical belonging, a chronology of arrival, and a materialized representation of a lived experience, this museum plays an active and interactive role in the shaping of a collective memory of the plantation era, selecting the more egalitarian aspects of a parallel coexistence rather than the hierarchies, violence, tensions and land appropriation upon which the plantations rested.

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“…The memories linked with the Plan Cabanes and surroundings are complex, and as might perhaps be expected, residents are often in disagreement about which element of the neighbourhood's history should be recognized through heritage protection measures. The stories I re-tell below are overlapping and not always linear, and form the sort of 'narrative economies' that Hoskins (2010) and Carter et al (2014) identify as relevant to place making and identity building.…”

Section: Neighbourhood Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He told several stories he has heard from his parents, of moving to France, and the Algerian wars, and then remarked that the plaza is void of meaning. In these discussions Damya built the types of narrative Hoskins (2010) and Carter et al (2014) view as important to linking memory to landscape, drawing on the spaces of the Plan Cabanes to prompt recollection of migration and resettlement. He found that the Plan Cabanes was not just empty, but drained of the socio-cultural milieu that made it relevant.…”

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Public space and memories of migration: erasing diversity through urban redevelopment in France

Tchoukaleyska

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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This article examines the meaning of public space and impact of heritage-led urban redevelopment in a diverse neighbourhood in Montpellier, France. It traces the relocation of a North African market from a central city plaza in favour of French antiques, and the resulting contestation over what constitutes local heritage, who has the capacity to determine how public space is used, and the seeming erasure of migrant identities and memories from an important community plaza. The paper considers how urban areas are re-imagined through a change in the materiality of public space, and outlines the role of outdoor markets in defining the social function of such spaces. The paper examines the intertwining of physical erasure (urban redevelopment and the removal of a diverse food market) and cultural erasure (the loss of certain community memories), and how these processes speak to broader debates about French national identity, cultural heritage, and the meanings attached to public spaces.

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The House That Story Built: The Place of Slavery in Plantation Museum Narratives

Cited by 43 publications

References 30 publications

Glaciers and climate change: narratives of ruined futures

Glaciers and climate change: narratives of ruined futures

Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage

Public space and memories of migration: erasing diversity through urban redevelopment in France

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