| Abstrakt: |
Focusing on the heritage sector, this article traces ways of remembering and representing slavery in Mauritius from the first tentative acknowledgment at government level in 1985 to today. Three heritage sites – a monument in Port Louis, the National History Museum in Mahebourg and Le Morne Mountain, a World Heritage site associated with slavery – and their textual and visual narratives serve as exemplary cases of shifting dominant paradigms of representing slavery in the course of the past two decades. Focusing on the national dimension, the article also attempts to contextualize these readings by detecting some of the actors constructing specific images of slavery, as well as their motives and positions of speaking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
