eprintid: 29525
rev_number: 19
eprint_status: archive
userid: 5815
dir: disk0/00/02/95/25
datestamp: 2021-04-15 06:56:56
lastmod: 2021-04-16 07:12:44
status_changed: 2021-04-15 06:56:56
type: masterThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Polanía-Beltrán, Fihiza
title: Transnational Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade Today:
Modes of Remembering in Three Lusophone Nations
subjects: ddc-300
subjects: ddc-460
divisions: i-90300
adv_faculty: af-09
cterms_swd: Atlantic slave trade
cterms_swd: Lusophone countries
cterms_swd: Memory studies
cterms_swd: Modes of remembering
cterms_swd: Palimpsest of Memory
abstract: From the 15th century up until the 19th century, millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly taken from their homes to the Americas and, to a lesser extent, to Europe. The remnant effects of slavery have persisted in these societies and remain evident today. This paper examines the transnational Memory of the Atlantic slave trade today and its modes of remembering through palimpsests of Memory in three Lusophone nations: Angola, Brazil, and Portugal. Using Astrid Erll’s outline (2010) on Memory studies, this thesis argues that there are different modes of remembering the past according to the distinct positions occupied within the world system. This thesis thereby proposes the notion of palimpsests of Memory, as a parallel with Pierre Nora’s (1996) Lieux de mémoire, as mediums of remembering that elicit those modes. To this end, three cases are compared: Angolan poetry, capoeira practice in Brazil, and the urban toponymy in Lisbon (the capital city of Portugal). The double structure of the palimpsest presented by Sarah Dillon (2005) will be used for this analysis. The following three modes of remembering are analyzed and discussed from a transnational perspective: the defiant, the heterogeneous, and the nostalgic. This juxtaposed analysis demonstrates how Memory constitutes a representation that is affected by diverse social and cultural frameworks in which it is situated.
date: 2021
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00029525
ppn_swb: 1755113048
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-295258
date_accepted: 2021-03-26
advisor: HASH(0x559e37cc68e0)
language: eng
bibsort: POLANIABELTRANSNATIO2021
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
thesis_type: M.A.
citation:   Polanía-Beltrán, Fihiza  (2021) Transnational Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade Today: Modes of Remembering in Three Lusophone Nations.  [Master's thesis]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/29525/1/Uni%20HD%20repository.pdf