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Black History - White History: Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce
Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. "Black History - White History" assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It inquires into the terms on which the new historical programme could take hold, its sustainability and its representational politics.
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Black History - White History: Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce
Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. "Black History - White History" assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It inquires into the terms on which the new historical programme could take hold, its sustainability and its representational politics.
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Black History - White History: Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce

Black History - White History: Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce

Black History - White History: Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce

Black History - White History: Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce

Overview

Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. "Black History - White History" assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It inquires into the terms on which the new historical programme could take hold, its sustainability and its representational politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783837619355
Publication date: 12/06/2011
Series: History in Popular Cultures , #5
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Barbara Korte is professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Eva Ulrike Pirker is lecturer in English Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

1
Editorial 2
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Note on Citations 9
Introduction 11
1. Discovering a Past for the Present 17
2. Historical Culture and Social Communication 37
3. Popular Re/Presentation of History and Its Media 47
4. Key Aims and Questions 53
1. Remembering and Forgetting Slavery 57
2. Screening Slavery and the Slave Trade before the Bicentenary 65
3. Simon Schama's Rough Crossings: From Popular History Book to Television History 81
4. The Abolition as Costume Film: Amazing Grace - Black History with a White Hero 99
5. Setting a Critical Tone: In Search of William Wilberforce 115
6. ›Doing an Anniversary‹: The Event Culture Surrounding 2007 121
7. The Impact of 2007 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in British Museums 135
8. Family Matters: Genealogy as Popular (Black) History 163
1. Screening and Staging an Arrival 183
2. Family, Sport and Period in Wondrous Oblivion 185
3. Notting Hill in a Historical Crime Serial 199
4. Migration as Heritage Drama? Small Island 207
5. Migration History as Entertainment? Trends in Contemporary British Theatre 231
6. The Windrush Story as Musical 239
Conclusion 251
Bibliography 255
Index 279
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